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

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.