You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.

Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey.

Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back.

The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.

A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed them must be either stupid and decieved or have some ulterior motive. We are today a nation where almost everyone in the public eye displays fanaticism with every utterance.

But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.