Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.

Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.

A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down to the molecular level, but without it ever being part of a pig, how is it to be treated?

I don't think most of my opinions, political or social, are so far outside of the mainstream that they'd cause massive outrage on a scale liable to provoke death threats or referrals to prosecutors for outraging public decency, so why worry?

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

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.

I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives.