I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!

He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising maths problems and who'd never read a science-fiction book and who would burn out completely before puberty and never amount to anything in their future lives because they'd just practised known techniques instead of learning to think creatively.

Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering.

World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!

There's something in science like the shine of the Patronus Charm, driving back all sorts of darkness and madness.

The police officer who puts their life on the line with no superpowers, no X-Ray vision, no super-strength, no ability to fly, and above all no invulnerability to bullets, reveals far greater virtue than Superman - who is only a mere superhero.