Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.

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.

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 ...)

If an idea is compelling enough it'll stick in my head until I am forced to write it. If it's forgettable, who cares?

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.

Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.

Women are underserved and underestimated as consumers.

My look is either very baroque or very Zen – everything in between makes me itch.

Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.

Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.