Time moves in one direction, memory in another..

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes..

Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make betw….

A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response..

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil..

People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary..

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were ….

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

I do not think an enormous permanent underclass is a very good thing to have if you're attempting to operate something that at least pretends sometim….

My problem is that all things are increasingly interesting to me.

The present tense made him nervous..

We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognitio….

The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be..

The future is not Google-able..

Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones..

Stand high long enough and your lightning will come..

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not..

Our hardware is likely to turn into something like us a lot faster than we are likely to turn into something like our hardware...I very much doubt th….

The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent..

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart..

A nation,” he heard himself say, “consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual’s morals are sit….