Ive been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.

If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.

Try to think like a human, ’ said Gant, lolling in one of the club chairs.‘Why should I restrict myself so severely?

Thus, in moments of catastrophe, when hard decisions needed to be made quickly, all AIs included in their calculations a human death toll governed by a factor called ‘pigheadedness’.

It all came back to human time and utterly human impulses: in the end, gods did not appreciate godlike power, but humans did.

It is very difficult to motivate people to revolution when they are extremely comfortable and well off.

Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.

Each man kills the thing he loves.

For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.

You don't have to believe in Feng Shui for it to work. I just know it brings me money.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

I wish, and I wish that the spring would go faster, Nor long summer bide so late; And I could grow on like the foxglove and aster, For some things are ill to wait.

I don't think anyone enjoys raising money, but for some reason I seem to have a knack...

I don't have anything against colour. It is just not my first preference. I have always found black and white photographs to be quieter and more mysterious than those made in colour.

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

I'm not really into movies on dates because you can't chat it up.