We don't legislate emergent technologies into existence. We almost never do. They just emerge, dragged forth by Adam Smith's invisible hand. Then we have to see what people are actually going to do with them, and try to legislate to take account of that.

We're living in a future that's weirder than anybody except possibly.

I'm quite good friends with the putative director, Vincenzo Natali, and I'm a big fan of his work, but beyond that, I don't like to talk about other people's work work-in-progress.

I've been through the whole western world, and it seems to me that there's more retail floor space devoted to the sale of books than food! There's more retail floor space devoted to the sale of books than there's been in the entire history of humanity! It's grotesque!

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.

There's violence in my culture [from America's South].