«Brixie wasn’t talking to him, or listening to him. Nothing like that at all. Brixie was off in her own world, flaming away like a blowtorch. She was such an Internet fiend that she had never learned any other way to behave.»

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.