Anything that can be done to a rat can be done to a human being. And we can do most anything to rats. This is a hard thing to think about, but it's the truth. It won't go away because we cover our eyes. THAT is cyberpunk.

Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.

A set of Bollywood actresses are coming through Dallas soon in a live tour; I'd pay a lot to see them, but alas, I'm fully booked elsewhere.

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

I think our grandparents were Victor Frankenstein. I basically am the kind of deeply unnatural creature that Mrs Shelley instinctively dreaded. I not only eat her sacred cows but I eat them with ketchup. While I take her point, I think that transgressive monstrosity and tampering with the life force are both a lot more fun than she suspected.

Everybody has a different Internet.

Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.