Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.

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

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.

Genuinely ubiquitous computing spreads like warm Vaseline.

I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.

If you’re fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly efficient communal prosthetic memory. I also suspect that you don’t know it, because, as anthropologists tell us, one cannot know one’s own culture.

I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I don't traffic in nostalgia. We're becoming a global culture.