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

I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there.

The prefix cyber is going the way of the prefix electro.

When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low cultural stream in those days. It was completly below the radar and no one bothered to censurate it.

I've never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things.

He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at the cold sweating center of every drug deal. But now he'd found this warm thing, this chip of murder. Meat, some part of him said. It's the meat talking, ignore it.

[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.