I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.

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

Genuinely ubiquitous computing spreads like warm Vaseline.

The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We've been working on it without really knowing it.

To the extent that I can still believe in Bohemia, which I think is very important to me in some way that I don't yet really understand, to the extent that I still believe in that, I have to believe that there are viable degrees of freedom inherent if not realized in interstitial areas.

Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted.

The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.