Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.

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 ...)

Tantalus made a wild grab, but the marshmallow committed suicide, diving into the flames.

I'm not saying homeschooling will be easy. I am saying it will be worth it.

Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a brain in your head.

That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.

Our flaws are what make us perfect.

The pyjamas have cats on them. I am informed that these cats belong to an organisation called Hello Kitty.

If you had of told me age 10 that in 19 years time I would be on a stage in Salford performing with Les Dennis in a sitcom I had written, I would have believed you.

Our personal power is found in the force of our thoughts ? it is our real strength.

If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance.

It is from the Himalayan forests and ecosystems that I learned most of what I know about ecology.