"Pay him what was promised", said the caliph. "And put out his eyes."

It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button.

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

To go faster you must slow down.

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?

Let's all be different same as me.

Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'

Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.

To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts.

Without a theory the facts are silent.

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.

The interesting thing about doing press is that I learn what the album is about - I now know, a year later, looking back, what was on my mind at the time.

My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.

Code as if the next guy to maintain your code is a homicidal maniac who knows where you live.

I bathe in statistics.

Scientists like ripping problems apart, collecting as much data as possible and then assembling the parts back together to make a decision.