I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

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 ...)

For growth to happen it is necessary to get your BUT out of the way.

She wasn’t his kind of woman, and she didn’t want to fall in love with a man who would break her heart like a Dorito.

Light inside of us can overcome, withstand or overshadow any darkness outside of us

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.

Fear and faith have a lot in common. Both of these emotions require that you believe in something that you can't see.

There's always a threat surrounding the things you love

I was going to buy a copy of "The Power of Positive Thinking", and then I thought: What good would that do?

I think the one thing of me that they really wanted to capitalize on is my dorkiness

If she lives till doomsday, she'll burn a week longer than the whole world.