All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.

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

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

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.

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

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