Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.

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 ...)

Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench.

There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it

I feel thankful for the grace of life.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

Satan can imitate God, but he cannot duplicate Him - God is the only One who can deliver us from our pain and suffering.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

There is only one thing that makes any one athlete better than another, his heart. We all put our underwear on feet first, so we are all human.

Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men!

Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.

While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.