The central point of this final chapter is that - follow my logic carefully here - unless you die, you will continue to get older. (It's insights like this that separate the professional book author from the person with a real job.)

There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.

Never try to put all the chemicals in the entire world in your body at the same time.

My son, Rob....said the only time he ever wraps a gift is, quote, "if it's such a poor gift that I don't want to be there when the person opens it."

I don't even care what Bill Bryson writes about because he will make it interesting. I love "A Walk in the Woods," about the Appalachian Trail, but his most amazing book is "A Short History of Nearly Everything."

The population of earth has reached 7 billion people, every single one of whom send you irritating emails to join something called "LinkedIn."

Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.