I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.

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.

Little beat big When Little smart. First with the head, then with the heart.

Hope transcends everything. It goes beyond all doubts. It silences fear. It quiets despair.

I wish I was this dark genius artist - like Richard Pryor or something.

Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

Strict honesty was the policy of most of them; although there were a few who were said to 'find anything before 'tis lost' and to whom findings were keepings.

Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.

But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.

Certainly, no church should be involved in trying to set the affairs of the nation.

I'm the Barbie, keep alotta plastic. Little pink stars, put em on my jacket.

Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.