Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next.

You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

The village is coming back, like it or not.

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person...

Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.

The fools among us are presented to be wise and the wise among us are presented to be fools.

I'm a middle-aged dad, which means I have no social time or life to speak of, and so I connect with my buddies with my Xbox.

A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder.

So have your wits about you, and do what you can and dig in, because it might not last.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

We wake up and are grateful for the day. Not taking away from the pain, because the pain will be there. But you live on.

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.