The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.

Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats.

Memories fade but words hang around forever.

Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and the smarts of Holmes--without the pesky morality.

Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans.