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Every book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.

Magic, like technology, is a tool.

Combining magic with technology is a good way to influence the trajectory of where technology is going and show people what technology could be in our lives and what it shouldn't be.

I don't want to ever write a book that seems like it's pandering to younger people or talking down to people who I know are very smart.

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.

There is something cheap about magic that works just because it is magic.

My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command. The things that get me fired up the most have always been the things that seem the most magical.