All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.

Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the DS, and so on.

Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need.

Although I played a lot of computer games in my 20s, now I have children of my own I hate them with a passion.

What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse.

Life is becoming no more than staring at the screen.

When walking you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder.