A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.

The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.

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

Damien is a friend. Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say.

We see in order to move; we move in order to see.

The nature of emergent technology is, as Kevin Kelly once said, right out of control. It's an element of human evolution that's completely out of control. It's sort of driving itself, and I don't see it ceasing to do that.