The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about it for a period of months to years.

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 ...)

Blind passion was one thing, all-knowing intimacy a rarer commodity.

Even migrating birds know that nature doesn't demand a choice between nesting and flight.

Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

That shot was going goalboundward

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

Lesson for the day: vision is always ahead of execution - and it should be.

Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.

Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point.

I don't have the physical talent those guys have. My hard work has made me very good.