While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.

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 ...)

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.

Fear and self-doubt are the greatest killers of personal genius.

Actually, I have to say that I don't believe in having a sexual realtionship outside of marriage.

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

It used to be enough just to make a fairly decent product and market it. Not anymore. In the '90s, you've got to have a Corporate Soul.

Being attached to someone is not about the other person. It is about your own sense of inadequacy.

If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.

It's a really nice thing to have so many fans and people that really care.

Singing in front of people. It's like having your heart beat outside of you.

The sky was the colour of sad weddings.