My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

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

I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.

We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.

Your attitude determines your altitude. Your ambitions are bigger than life Of course. They must be. They encompass it.

David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.