No prisoner's dilemma here. Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.

Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.

P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the world like English did. Er, *as* English did...

Randal can write one-liners again. Everyone is happy, and peace spreads over the whole Earth.

I have... instituted systematic, voluntary measures of cooperation with the business institutions and with State and municipal authorities to make certain that…

There was always some kind of strain, but it was workable. The bigger you get, the more of a strain it is, because in your everyday life, you're less used to c…

Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get i…