I don't do flash fiction.

Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.

The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.'

Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface.

More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market.

Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.

One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.

Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.

Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.

Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested ...)

Achievement comes from within. If you don’t feel it, it won’t make any difference what anyone else thinks.

You're a survivor because every day you make a choice not to be governed by their harsh words or actions. No one has the right to take away your happiness

I lived in Miami for a while in a section with a lot of really old people. The average age in my apartment house was dead.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

The desire to fulfill the purpose for which we were created is a gift from God.

Managers have people second-guessing them all the time.

It's funny because growing up, when Ali G first burst off the screen, it was something that I was probably too young to be watching, but I absolutely loved it.

I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.

If you want to be a leader, the first person you have to lead is yourself.

I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.