Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.

Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.

We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.

This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.