If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.

Genuinely ubiquitous computing spreads like warm Vaseline.

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

His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.

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

It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.

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