I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives.

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 ...)

Every noble work is at first impossible.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.

Spend unbroken chunks of time with the most important people in your life.

Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.

We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.

We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny.

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

Yoga serves the individual, and does so through inviting transformation rather than by giving information.

Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.