It’s a classic case of misplaced accounting priorities, valuing depreciable capital assets a thousand times more highly than the fruits of actual lab… - Charles Stross

I do something I never do in hotel rooms, which is to pick up the TV remote for a purpose other than hammering the “off” button.

Like I said: the only god I believe in is coming back. And when he arrives, I’ll be waiting with a shotgun.

Another problem with godheads, Johnny reflects, is that they can’t quite understand how anyone could not believe their shit. (He knows this because he started out as one, although he lost his faith before his balls dropped.) Consequently, they have immense difficulty in grasping, at an intuitive level, that someone who used to be one of them might no longer be completely in tune with their ideology.