“Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon.”

“Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.”

“Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer’s day, a long-running sitcom, one’s life, and eventually our species. The question for many of us is not that everything will come to an end but when. And can we do anything vaguely useful until it does?”

“I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.”

“Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.”

“I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.”

“What's with the "iMagic" name change?' I said without preamble.'Industrial Magic was a bit of a mouthful,' he explained. 'Besides, putting an "i"in front of anything makes it more hip and current.”