Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you're free. But a few measures more, and the cloak of time closes back around you.

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

We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

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