Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.
You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.
Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".
Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.
Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface.
Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.
I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist.
Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.
The expectation is that party leaders solve problems. That's why substantial differences must first be cleared up.
I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint.
I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.