A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.

I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.

If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.

If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.

Lately I’ve been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.

A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.

Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.

All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.

The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.

Independence' is a magic word, because nowhere in the Cosmos does it actually exist.

Six o'clock means very little to a three-year-old. It works better to say "after dinner, " or "as soon as the baby takes her morning nap.

We want you. We wanted you yesterday, we want you today and we'll want you tomorrow. There's nothing you could do to change that.

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

Everyone's opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.

I brings the ruckus to the ladies.

Having Zoe saved my life. It was my wake-up call. There were so many things I didn't want to pass on to her.

I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!

It is our responsibility to learn to become emotionally intelligent. These are skills, they’re not easy, nature didn’t give them to us - we have to learn them.

You can't use your camera as a shield against human suffering.