How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between… — Douglas Adams

The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I'd written both of them.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right … Or put it another way, "The future of computer power is pure simplicity."

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.