It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.

To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.

Genuinely ubiquitous computing spreads like warm Vaseline.

The present tense made him nervous.

Somehow I think that if Toronto had been forced to wait a decade [from 80th], it would be a better looking city.

I was travelling with Bruce Sterling on our mutual Difference Engine tour and he became aware from the experience of travelling with me that I would distinguish among the shoes in a perfectly normal fashion, but form him it was a revelation. There's a very lyrical passage in Holy Fire about old wealthy European men and their shoes, and how beautiful their shoes are, and how there have never been shoes as beautiful. I think that that was probably as close as Bruce will ever get to homage in my direction. I made him aware of footwear fashion.