How did the dolphins and whales get such big brains? They obviously don't need such big brains to catch fish.

Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are different.

I think that there are a few people that are power manipulators that have gotten control of things.

The dolphins and whales have a brain that is actually bigger in proportion to their size than we do. They are very complex. They are thinkers.

I don't like sitting at a keyboard.

The faster you can sample sound when you are digitizing it, the higher the frequency, the less phase ambiguity at the higher frequencies.

Who knows for sure how complex or how uncomplex the ancient people's lives were.

Your body gets old but your mind can always accept that.

Virtual reality might be able to give you a way of doing hands-on to construct ideas in a computer.

I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture.

The Web is the national MLS already. It’s happened. You’re arguing over yesterday’s news.

It would take me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people's lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.

I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down.

The creative act does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, and skills.

I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.

It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't realize what a rage I was in.

It is too late, now I wish I could live.

In a way, the cancer became an ally because it stopped me from running around so much. I was able to settle down and write things I hadn't had a chance to before.

Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither

Some people fear that technology will become more engaging than live human interactions. That's silly; technology is already way more interesting than other people.