To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?

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 ...)

The Sin against God’s Law Resulted in the Fall of Man

No matter how tough your journey gets, it would never be tougher than your mind if your thoughts and beliefs are always in your favor.

No one in the world is really over 28. I wish I had known that when I thought I was 40.

We were certainly worried about the deployment of chemical weapons across Syria by all parties, frankly, by the Islamic State as well. So it was a concern.

Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.

We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike.

You kind of live and die by the serve.

No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.

If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.

The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.