It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io. Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological the better. Yes," said Orphu. "I am most definitely shitting you, my friend.

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their age.

I'm very interested in the evolution of technology, and it's really the idea of artificial life which intrigues me, more than just intelligence - a new, evolving life form arising within our datasphere and coming into living relation with humanity.

... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.