The cards always look different when it's your turn to play them; loaded with subtly different possibilities.

Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossamer starbridges reached from the equator towards orbit.

I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.

Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished.

As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway.

A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.

Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't last for ever.

You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.

Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.

It’s the people who don’t worry—those who never have any doubts that what they’re doing is good and right—they’re the ones that cause the problems.

Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.

Higher you step up to the ladder of success.. lesser you need to speak about yourself.. your deeds should do so.

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill-natured.

I love theologians, they know god cannot speak so they spend their energy trying to explain to us what his silence means

Divorce is war and unfortunately, some parents live in constant entanglements with their ex-spouses and they shift aside the issues that post-divorce can leave on the shoulders of their children.

I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go.

Maybe they notice me wincing whenever I hear them say it, but I don't know: there are all sorts of reasons I could be wincing. Life is a wince-a-thon.

The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.

Not only am I better looking.. I'm just plain better.

At the end of the day, the markets are my passion.

Standing in the line at the food court, I try to be myself. But I forget how I usually stand when I'm myself.