[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

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 ...)

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

When somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong.

It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.

Business is a matter of human service.

In our obsessive wish to arrive, we often forget the most important thing, which is the journey.

The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession.

Good comedy is ageless.