Benjamin Reinhardt

Reasons academia needs an overhaul: professors need external motivation to share resources, even within departments. #messedupincentives

"When we say we are living in the developed world... We are accepting stagnation..." Peter Thiel

Engineering research: if you need complicated analysis to show that your thing works, you're actually doing science or it doesn't.

"I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's." - William Blake

Apparently Linux is British and Mac is American wrt modelling vs modeling.

One of the biggest things people don't realize about the Industrial Revolution is the degree to which technology preceded science.

"Please allow 10-14 days for your email address to be completely removed from our mailing databases." Do they flip the bits by hand?

Is there a word for the feeling after you discover a tool that's precisely right for a job?

Poor tooling here is holding back so much. @mayli, @nsfmc and I are trying to make the next gen of edu content—but our tools are tinkertoys!

Which sounds cooler: anti-tractor beam or repulsor beam? Because I have one.

Why doesn't Antarctica's population increase? You can't mine it. Don't let that happen to the moon and Mars.

Regarding Tesla patents http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you …

It's 2014. There should be an easy way to automatically generate a linkable Web-based bibliography...

News flash: the Lego movie is literally made out of *all* the things I like.

The Internet and the scientific process are like that couple you watch awkwardly flirt for years, wanting to yell "start kissing already!"

Whenever you make something clever there should be a genie that pops in and says either "good job!" Or "congrats, you reinvented the wheel"