David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.

Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?

Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a strategy. Nobody else has one.

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.

Losing your job releases you to think effectively and make rational decisions

If people are concerned about my house and where I live again it's much more of a reflection on them than it is on me.

I still feel my generation is split on their attitudes.

I think a lot of music that's really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a sexual image. And people assume that it's a commodified thing, so it can't be "indie."

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.

Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant detective.

I could have played football for two or three more years. All I needed was a leg transplant.

Innovation means saying 'no' to a thousand things.

I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant.

I could run like a gazelle, couldn't I?