But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.

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.

But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav­ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.

Indomitable soul encompasses a beautiful heart and a beautiful smile.

To breath the air of Paris preserves the soul.

Don't let anyone define and decide for you fate.

I take pride in whatever I do. If you told me to clean the room up, I'd clean it up real good.

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.

Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed.

Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.

You have good days and bad days.