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

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.

I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day. That fascinates me, because it seems to be symbolic of something going on in the culture itself, and I also have a sort of innate admiration for the stubbornness it requires to actually make those things physically. It's become incredibly difficult. In North America, we've largely forgotten how to do it.

Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another.

His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.

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.