Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.

If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?

The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.

Everything interests me.

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.