Sometimes, I feel like a time traveller, cause the only way that we can really travel in time is just to get older.

I watch for emergent technologies and pay attention to what people say they'll be good for, then see what we actually use them for. It never occurred to me that a tiny telephone with a wireless transceiver would do whatever it is that it's done to us.

This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work.

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

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.

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.

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