Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

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.

A tuna can only boast in a pond, but a whale can boast even in the ocean.

Her English was sweet, an effort for her, anachronistic and unpractised.

He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.

Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.

Each party should gain from the negotiation.

Those things that are precious are saved only by sacrifice.

Aleppo is a disaster. It's a humanitarian nightmare.

No-pocket jeans are only slightly less irritating than thong underwear.

When disposition wins us, the features please.

O Heavenly Father, convert my religion from a name to a principle! Bring all my thoughts and movements into an habitual reference to Thee!