The problem with ebook filesharing is simply one of scale. But I think the "piracy" problem is massively over-rated.

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 ...)

We must all raise war against ignorance.

Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.

Death is the last limit of all things.

Ready to give up so I seek the old Earth.

We're invisible. I've never been here with someone else. It's different being invisible with someone.

There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.

The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.

For every person you can trust, there was first a child who was trusted.

Prepare for the worst so the best will happen