Being virtually killed by a virtual laser in a virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are.
The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%.
One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a broadminded and well-adjusted family can’t cope with.
We live in strange times. We also live in strange places, each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universe are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.
I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don’t believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.
Beauty doesn’t have to be about anything. What’s a vase about? What’s a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart’s Twenty-third Piano Concerto about?
You can’t dodge your responsibilities by saying they don’t exist!
The fact is, I don’t know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head against it.
Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.
There are two things you should remember when dealing with parallel universes. One, they’re not really parallel, and two, they’re not really universes.
Space is really big – REALLY big.
I am terribly proud of-I was born in Cambridge in 1952 and my initials are DNA!
There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to explore in depth. It is a simple task, but the opportunities for satisfaction are many and profound.
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow pizza.
The story goes that I first had the idea for The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck.
A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones.
Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.
Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast.
Time doesn’t necessarily happen in chronological order.
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!