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"Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software."
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"Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news."
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"The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it."
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"When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment."
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"I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore."
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"Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?"
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"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."
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"These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries."
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"But I said wait a minute, I'm going to get a computer, I can do this as well as anybody else. So I did some studying so I knew what kind of boards to get to put a PC together. But there was a guy sitting there with Apple. I said, 'what's that?' and he goes, 'Apple with 128k, it's all built into the box,' and I bought it. That was my first computer."
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"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."
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"Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us."
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"I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway."
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"Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely."
First
"I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap."
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"Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that."
Work
"Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times."
Science
"I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before."
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"I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't."
Change
"I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published."
Writer
"I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants."
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"A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people."
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