The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school.

Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning -- and, once decided, best unseen.

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.