It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.

That's what you get for ignoring the beauty of Tupperware.

In a lot of places, of course, the '80s had never really come to an end.

It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.

It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.

ARGH! There's no such thing [as writer's block]. Seriously: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. You know what there is? There's a bunch of problems, creative and otherwise, that can stop you writing. They are not block. They are important skills.

No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if you are going to leave the path, you better have your wits about you and know better than to trust the first scary old lady who talks to you in public.