One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.

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.

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 ...)

If an idea is compelling enough it'll stick in my head until I am forced to write it. If it's forgettable, who cares?

Never fear criticism. Use the information to grow your thinking power.

The value we place on what we've been given correlates to our depth of gratitude for it.

If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it's just great fodder for you. It's wonderful source stuff that we die for.

I was spread out dailyand examined for flaws.

If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health care, a high school education and birth control. Not the exact opposite.

To cook your hare you must first catch it.

Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.

I'm a big fan of country.

I have no urge to go back to college.

Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.