Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

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.