How could anyone survive even a single day, if he didn't feel as if he was, in some little great way, needed?

To improve as a player you need to not only know how you plan to win, but ... how might your opponent disrupt your plan.

A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest.

A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.

I would like to say that I have software that allows me to model worlds to a high degree of scientific plausibility. I'd also like to be six foot two and fifteen years into my reign as Emperor of Europa. The simple truth is that past the character's name and a long history of making my own body cover distances, I did very little in the way of targeted research.

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

It has often been said that [...] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch.