What I need... is a strong drink and a peer group.

The idea that Bill Gates (one of the founders of Microsoft) has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second rate technology, led them into it in the first place...

I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there´s a saucer of milk in it for them.

Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.' Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.

"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water."

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

Space is really big-REALLY big.