My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

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.

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

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

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

The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.