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" Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet. "

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" Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth the effort for end users, however much fun it is for nerds like us. "

" I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them. "

" Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. "

" We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem. "

" I remember very little about writing the first series of 'Hitchhiker's.' It's almost as if someone else wrote it. "

" I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. "

" It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too. "

" For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. "

" The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. "

" People wanted me to do a CD-ROM of 'Hitchhiker's,' and I thought, 'No, no.' I didn't want to just sort of reverse-engineer yet another thing from a book I'd already written. I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in. "

" I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it. "

" In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground. "

" If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat. "

" I used to be a great fan of doing crosswords. When you're fiddling around with anagrams, you get wonderful jumbles of syllables that become interesting. "

" I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn't anything going on the outside! "

" I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. "

" The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. "

" Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use. "

" One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It's just an awful lot of 'us.' "

" He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. "

" We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever. "

" Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication. "

" Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. "

" Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space. "

" I don't think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn't becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it's very new to us. Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people 'over the Internet.' "

" I think the idea of art kills creativity. "

" The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees. "

" If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. "

" I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? "

" This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. "