Quotes About Author

It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place.

The tsar of War and Peace, especially in the BBC version, is a complete popinjay and a useless character. The real tsar, Alexander I, had an amazing career.

Radio 4 Extra is the network which offers the broadcasting version of eternal life.

I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller. It was my first popular book and aroused a great deal of interest. Initially, many people found it difficult to understand. I therefore decided to try to write a new version that would be easier to follow.

The Rolling Stones are so versatile, they're like the band version of that Infinite Dress they sell on QVC.

My job is to recruit the best players I can recruit. When they get here, challenge them and grow them into their best version.

People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.

Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book.

I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet.

All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!

Just the opposite for me, all is drowned in poetic impression; I am ready for all concessions. Suddenly

selecting and collecting the right texts is just as important for writing instruction.

Thus, no matter how cleverly a computer is designed to simulate intelligence by producing the same behavior as a human, it has

That's why I liked him, I think. Another guy pretending to be human, just like me.

It was almost enough to make me feel emotion.

It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.

I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy.

I sighed; as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.

Stop the nurse like the monkey.

Perhaps I should call the Guinness Book people. I wondered what the world record was for not being sure whether you committed a string of murders?

Always marveling at how New Age pseudo-philosophy had taken over the Internet.

For my part, my interest in Paris had faded away completely long ago when I learned that it was in France.

I suppose I should have died right then from pure misery and self-pity, but if those things were fatal, no one would ever make it past thirteen years old.