Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.

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.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

We don't legislate emergent technologies into existence. We almost never do. They just emerge, dragged forth by Adam Smith's invisible hand. Then we have to see what people are actually going to do with them, and try to legislate to take account of that.

You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.

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

I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything.