I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.

I watch for emergent technologies and pay attention to what people say they'll be good for, then see what we actually use them for. It never occurred to me that a tiny telephone with a wireless transceiver would do whatever it is that it's done to us.

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

Time is money, but also money is money.

I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.