“When the term 'machine gun' enters common parlance, the word 'machine'...” — Scott Westerfeld Quote

When the term 'machine gun' enters common parlance, the word 'machine' becomes much more sinister.

Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.

Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters or oozes its way through to my narrative brain.

I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are blobjects.

I was shot from the funny gun.

We've got to get the gun out of the hands of people who are supposed to be on neighborhood watch.

Every time you try to create an experience with a character who doesn't use a gun, doesn't drive a car, doesn't jump off platforms, doesn't solve puzzles, you are taking a risk.

There's a political party in America that has an almost fanatical opposition to even the most minimal standards of gun safety - and that's the root of the problem.

Some fighters are better when there's no one in the crowd, and some fighters are best when they're under the gun and the whole world is watching.