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.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

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

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

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

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