The future is a process, not a destination. Richard Stallman is a guy my age. I sympathize with Richard rather more than I sympathize with Richard's open-source ideas, but the guy's a mortal human being and so is his social movement. Open-source is a means of production.

Every passing year brings us more past futures.

Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.

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.

The future isn't just unwritten, it's unsearched.

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

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.