We are, after all, homo economicus.

Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.

Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.

The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about it for a period of months to years.

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.

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".