On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

Fandom is about fandom, it's a great big social club.

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.

Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that.

For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.

I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me.

I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants.

The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.

How we relate with other people is dependent on how we rate ourselves and what we think about ourselves.

When I was really young, I can remember being into fashion, but I was really into horses and sports.

The best people to love are the ones that you don't have to try to love.

If God exists He must be manifest somehow in matter, and His ways are what science is discovering.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?" "Then what died? who are you mourning?" "A point of view.

I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit.

If the gospel of Jesus Christ can be proclaimed as a theology of self-esteem, imagine the health this could generate in society!

People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.

It is important to see that, in the critique of ideology, only those interventions will work which make sense to the mystified subject itself.