"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

"I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come."

"I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball."

"There is no 'i' in team but there is in win."

"After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it."

"In my books the technology that I choose to talk about has to serve the themes. What that means is that I end up having to cut out a lot of cool technology that would be really fun to describe and play with, but which would just confuse everybody. So in 'Amped,' I focus on neural implants."

"It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age."

"There's an internal battle. I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids and the kids win."