Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.
Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.
A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.
It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.
There's no question that males are more violent and more prone to the type of hierarchical organizations that lead to war. War is largely a male activity. In fact, there is some correlation [between making war and] having an excess of males in the population.
Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say
The vampire stared at me, his mouth slack as Ghastek assessed his options. I took a couple of forms from my desk, put them into the vamp's mouth, and pulled them up by their edges. "What are you doing?" Ghastek asked. "My hole puncher broke. " "You have no respect for the undead.
But our hearts are more elastic than we think, and the work of forgiveness and transformation and growth can do things you can't even imagine from where you're standing now.
I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived. "
You can't stop change. Don't let it stop you.