I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and smaller still, almost ….

The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can….

I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with ….

Experiments in digitizing and running neural wetware under emulation are well established; some radical libertarians claim that, as the technology ma….

I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses..

Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and….

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty..

I'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain of organised religion. ….

People want to buy mp3s but can't? Piracy ensues. Then Apple strong-arms the music studios into the iTunes store and music piracy drops somewhat. The….

An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require….

Can I remember "I remember lots," I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter..

If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!.

Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place..

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing..

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job..

We are, after all, homo economicus..

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration..

Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous thing they face is paper. Papers c….

The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, ….

To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?.

What I'm hoping for is something that goes much, much further than the conservative enablers of dog-eat-dog capitalism putting on a puppet show of cl….