I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn 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 ...)

It looks as if British democracy died a few years ago, and nobody noticed.

Tolerance level of each one changes as per situation - Is it Hypocrisy ?

In the end it's not about how many breaths you took. In the end it's about the moments that took your breath away.

You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.

I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.

Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.

No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.

Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research.

Muddy water will become clear if allowed to stand undisturbed, and so too will the mind become clear if it is allowed to be still.

I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.