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

We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

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

Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli.

What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a new car today, it'll probably still be on the road in 2022.

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".

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