A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.
We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other.
Very strange people, physicists – in my experience the ones who aren’t dead are in some way very ill.
Shee, you guys are so unhip it’s a wonder your bums don’t fall off.
Time travel, by its very nature, was invented in all periods of history simultaneously.
A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason. This was because Reason was in fact out to lunch.
Don’t spin your wheels and stress. Take a deep breath, center yourself and make a plan.
Ha, but my life is a box of wormgears.
I can see we’re in for a fabulous evening’s apocalypse.
Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water?
Presidents don’t have power. Their job is to draw attention away from it.
I’m 48, which is a bit of a shock to me. Why only last year I thought I was a precocious young thing!
If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.
Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind.
If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for your bag and times when you do. It had yet to teach her to distinguish between the two types of occasion.
There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature, but, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.
I wanted to be John Cleese. It took me some time to realise that the job was taken.
The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.
But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that daily rattled the lives of men he thought he might have heard a few notes that denoted the movements of gods.
The dew has fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning.