We live in an age of seriously crap mass clothing. They've made a science of it.

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.

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.

My problem is that all things are increasingly interesting to me

I loved the Limey [movie]! It's so violent! And yet it's so exquisitely romanticized in a sort of Japanese way, it's a samurai film. Coming out of that, I was really deeply conflicted, because a friend who had seen it said, it's beautiful, but it's not about anything. it's one micron thick.

You needed a new pancreas. The one we bought for you frees you from a dangerous dependency.” “Thanks, but I was enjoying that dependency.

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