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.

When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.

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

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.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

Everything interests me.