Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.

Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface.

No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute detail.

Today, we see some "file sharing" sites that rely on fans uploading cracked copies of ebooks, and which then make money off those books by charging for downloads (via cash subscriptions or advertising). Again: I take a dim view of this. They're making money off the back of my work without paying me.

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

It's usually quite easy to shrug and write something else instead.