Well then. Will the naysayers please leave the universe?

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 ...)

Don’t settle for greatness. There’s room for exceeding greatness if you can conceive the dream.

Envy is an envious person and truth they don't like to wear

It's not okay to lie about people and particularly not okay to hurl the worst imaginable names at people just because you think you might not like their politics.

True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you.

Let me be the ring leader in your guilt gang-bang.

Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.

Sometimes I guess you need to lose everything before you realize what's really important.

If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.

Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.