Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.

I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me.

He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.

In effect, I grew up in a sort of timewarp, a place where times are scrambled up. There are elements of my childhood that look to me now, in memory more like the 1940s or the 1950s than the 1960s. Jack [Womack] says that that made us science fiction writers, because we grew up experiencing a kind of time travel.

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.

The street finds its own uses for things.

The future is here - it just has not been uniformly distributed.