There is no future in which bits will be harder to copy than they are today ... Any business model that based on the idea that bits will be harder to copy is doomed.

The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.

Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the nest day - that way, you can write three or five words without being “creative” and before you know it, you're writing.

Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.

Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice.

It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy.