I like to do things that are surprising and different.

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.

What others say about you in front of you is not always veracious, find out what they are saying behind you.

I thought it was love. No, it wasn't. It was marriage

There is a kind of gospel being proclaimed today which conveniently accommodates itself to the spirit of the age, and makes no demand for godliness.

I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.

Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God.

Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful.

By far the hardest decision I've had to manage [was about my health]. Because I had 51 years of doing it wrong.

A twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: "Ancient walls that sing the distant hours.

I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

I guess the issue for me is to keep things dynamic.