«She had Google, and she had Wikipedia. She could look up anything obscure, any words or phrases that she didn’t understand. A romance novel was just a book, while the Internet was the Internet. The Internet would crack these nuts for sure.»

He lived in Belgrade with Serbian author and film-maker Jasmina Tešanović for several years. Flurb 6 Speech at the Austin Game Developers Conference. In the speech where he offered "spime" he noted that the term "blobject" with which he is sometimes credited was passed on to him by industrial designer Karim Rashid.

This work helped to define the cyberpunk genre.