As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.

None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.

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.

His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.

Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself