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.

I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.

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

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.

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

. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.

Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it's hardly ever what you expect.

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.

Hillary Clinton is unworthy of being the President of the United States; she has done nothing important that is good

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

42% of college graduates never read a book after college.

France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

Problems are God's resistance to create spiritual muscles.

I am not playing for any lobby. I am playing for national lobby. I will ignore lobby. Anybody has useful suggestion, they can give it to me. The history will speak about it.