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

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.

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.

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

In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault.

A leader is heard, a great leader is listened too.

As a parent with a child with autism, its been really tough to experience your child having autism.

It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now

No; but you came, and found the riddles waiting for you! Indeed you are yourself the only riddle. What you call riddles are truths, and seem riddles because you are not true.

A community is only a community when the majority of its members are making the transition from 'the community for myself' to 'myself for the community'.

Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.

International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

Love means never having to say you're sorry. That's why I never apologize to my mirror.

Bill Clinton is a man who thinks international affairs means dating a girl from out of town.