I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

I am fascinated by religion. (That's a completely different thing from believing in it!) It has had such an incalculably huge effect on human affairs. What is …

My favourite piece of information is that Branwell Bronte, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantelpiece, in order to prove it…

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right ... Or put it another way, 'The future of computer po…