Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.

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 ...)

He wrapped his arms around me. We were cuddled up like a couple of spoons in a cutlery drawer.

It’s a little early in our relationship for us to be ‘surmounting, ’ but, hey, I’m game if you are. I’ll even let you be on top.” He looked directly at me, a coy smile playing on his lips.

I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

There is a variety in tempers of good men.

In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes and reveals them as classes.

I really love things with melody.

Try to be a whole person.Not just a night person, or a day person. Be the kind of person who can live in both.

Everyone wants to get a piece of me.