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We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of...

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

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In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.

Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with...

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

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