Especially with iPhones, iPads and apps, there's just so much detachment that you're just flicking your fingers on a smooth surface to get the weather or whatever.

Real randomness requires an infinite amount of information.

Computers are only capable of a certain kind of randomness because computers are finite devices.

There's a branch of math called the foundations of math. It's kind of like quantum mechanics. It's about how this very complex theory of math can be built up from very basic parts.

If you're going to download an MP3, as a recording, it's sort of like an archive of something that has happened - that has a beginning and an end and can be released. The infiniteness escaped.

I think people should consume their music any way they want. If it's more practical for them to listen to it on an iPod or something, that's fine by me.

People generally like to subscribe to celebrities.

Whenever you have something looping, you essentially have something generating information with less information.

You use a glass mirror to see your face

But the thing that . . . that I touched . . . " I cried. "It was furry! It-" I stopped short, taken with a shudder. "I know, " said Herrick.

I retreat to my room and lock the door. Lying on my bed, my brain cyclones with thoughts of men and boys and boys and men. All making the wrong choices.

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form

Let every head of household see to it that he has on hand enough food and clothing and, where possible, fuel also for at least a year ahead.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood

The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

About 15 years later, I was given all 113 episodes on tape.

When someone accuses you of being 'childish', I think you should take it as a compliment.

I wanted to do something that small towns would enjoy.