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.

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

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.

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

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.