Once you provide people with a platform to start their own country, every conceivable type of innovator reaches out to you with their own idea.

A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.

You can't create the future unless you imagine it.

Seasteading could be the means by which humanity will live sustainably.

Seavilization will be better than civilization, and we have nearly half the world's surface to discover it.

That's the marvellous thing about seasteads; if a government fails, there's nothing much the people who live there can do about it. But if seasteads fail, they simply disassemble and go away.

We're going to draw a new map of the world, with French Polynesia as the centre of the Aquatic Age.

My insides contract- bad. "who are you?" I ask right out loud. And he says what I've been afraid of since I killed Lester's father. Haven't you guessed? I'm you. The real you.

These 13,000 release occurred on Hillary Clinton's watch. She had the power and the duty to stop it cold, and she decided she would not do it.

I have more eating memories than cooking memories and many memories of being in the kitchen - I was always attracted to the kitchen - but nobody ever wanted me to touch anything.

How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire

My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.

On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.

Praise and disgrace cause fear.

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

I'm not a particularly good cook. Part of it is that it is the kind of cooking anybody could do if they bothered. It's improvisational. I cook with whatever I have laying around.

You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic priest.