I find that when I talk to people about stories, they have trouble understanding the difference between “real” and “realistic”. They say, “der! It’s not supposed to be real; it’s FICTION! DEPRA-DER!” So I have instead gotten away from that term in favor of “self-consistent”. They still don’t know what that means, but…

Yeah, there are too many people who just need one or two programs that aren’t available on netbooks. I ended up deciding that if I made the switch to Chromebook, I can keep my old laptop and remote into it for my one program whenever I need it, and it runs faster than it did before because I freed up space and memory.

Garret is the perfect actor for any role. He could play a 3-year-old girl trapped in a grown man’s body and be 100% believable.

How sensitive is this movement detection? I leave my phone on the couch while I’m watching TV, so it moves a little when I fidget. My desk also shakes when I’m REALLY ANGRY AT THE INTERNET.

That’s nonsense. I don’t get confused when I watch Netflix, or Yahoo Screen, on Chromecast. I’ve never been dumb enough to think that Google now owns Netflix and Yahoo, because I have an IQ above 85. Amazon is just straight up anticompetitive. You hear all these stories about Google antitrust cases, but then this…

A tablet I can fit in my pocket? Great. Portability and larger screen do indeed sound good. BUT we’re also working on completely flexible phones that could be worn on the wrist. The foldable is to that as the car phone was to the cell phone. There’s just not enough time before we jump beyond it.

I am never bored. Ever. I'm a fiction writer. Whatever boring nothingness you put in front of me, I can always retreat to my imagination. For the rest of you (and for me), build a spaceship...or two...or several billion. We could all have our own galaxy and still have galaxies to spare. There's a whole lot of intrigue…