Style is time’s fool. Form is time’s student

Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers.

Programming (or making music) at night is dreamtime, a period exclusively mental, utterly absorbed, sustained and timeless, placeless, disembodied.

There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.

One advantage of a solar collector in space: It would be some kind of origami thing that would unfold and be relatively light because it doesn't have gravity to deal with.

Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.