People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

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

The experience of celebrity is gradually being democratized.

We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.

Our hardware is likely to turn into something like us a lot faster than we are likely to turn into something like our hardware...I very much doubt that our grandchildren will understand the distinction between that which is a computer and that which isn't.

We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.