"What delighted me was that it's 30 years from now — not next week or next year. … That would be totally hopeless; tha…"

"It is probably a good idea to search, at some level, for asteroids that come to the Earth's general vicinity. But mer…"

"When the Deep Impact probe hit Comet 9P/Tempel, there was almost no change in brightness. … This outburst by Comet Ho…"

"This is a terrific outburst. And since it doesn’t have a tail right now, some observers have confused it with a nova.…"

"The twentieth century had conclusively settled the question of how a society should be organised: liberal democracy, …"

"For James, there was no sense that expanding Tesco’s sales onto the web was what the human race urgently needed. It d…"

"It was insane that you had to pretend to be interested in your job and use these lame phrases like “pinging things ov…"

"James had assumed this would be a task of meticulous detection, of inefficiencies brilliantly uncovered, but there wa…"

"James was twenty- seven and never had a boss again. Until that moment, he and Roland had lived as employees, as if in…"

"James said that in years to come, when the company had swelled to thousands, people would brag about having been on t…"