The late 90s were crazy science-fictional if you were inside the superheated steam bubble of the dot-com 1.0 industry.

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 ...)

Genetic code is a divine writing.

The only model to follow is pure Islam.

Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party.

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret

Everything is so finite but that’s what makes our time and specific moments so important.

Software work is the most complex that humanity has ever undertaken.

It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things.

I think she's going to be better and better if she works hard.

People say I stole a lot of bases. I stole the bases for a reason. I crossed the plate.