The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.

The late 90s were crazy science-fictional if you were inside the superheated steam bubble of the dot-com 1.0 industry.

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

One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.

Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing.

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?

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