The rules of physics are, in some cases, suspiciously anthropic.

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 ...)

Roots never get the appreciation that a flower does, but that doesn’t make them envious.

I won't eat what I can't kill. It seems shoddy, hypocritical.

A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

I guess, as an Emanuel, I have a voice that carries.

I have to live the content, then come back and write about it.

I'm a people person...who drinks.

I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do.

I come straight from hell, Cell 23

When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just emotion in the end. And any of it can make you weep.

A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else.