Scott Westerfeld

I found a great book called 'Slang Through the Ages' by Jonathon Green. It's basically a thesaurus of historical slang, and had lots of great old uses.

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

When the term 'machine gun' enters common parlance, the word 'machine' becomes much more sinister.

The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the evolutionary process, who came first?

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'