Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.

The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.

Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a strategy. Nobody else has one.