I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.

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.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

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

Everything interests me.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

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