You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.

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 ...)

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.

Learn to master your thoughts and watch closely what you deposit into your spirit. Speak over your life. Living in peace has transformative power.

It is not important how much money you gave away. It is important what good it will do on the way.

A little inhumanity does not describe you as heartless, rather, it is a way of telling others that you have a heart that can get angry.

Caro: "Bite me."Ruby: "I gave that up in kindergarten.

Health is a human necessity

I think you have to be much more secure and much less angry to trust the simple. You've got to be in a pretty good place to trust those simple, obvious answers and, most important, to use them.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.

That ugly freak has spent so much time in my head, I should be charging him rent." -Four