Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.

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.

An unavoidable war is called justice. When brutality is the only option left it is holy

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

These blessed candles of the night.

And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and hardened with a morality too rigid to accommodate itself to the swing of events, must ..... eventually ..... fall.

To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.

Whenever I have a bunch of tunes written, I always find a kind of uniform that accompanies the songs.

I always do things before I go on a case and when I leave a case. I even do that when I'm out on the road.

Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.

Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.