The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.

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.

Just because they disagree, doesn't mean you ain't right.

In the same way that our school system feels strongly about requiring vaccinations and annual physicals, I feel strongly that it is essential to add a mental health component to that annual physical.

I always feel that there's no violence in a movie - it's not real, it's a magic trick. Nobody is really dying. In fact, the people that die in my movies have gone on to become extremely successful!

Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.

There is no greater honour than to serve Canadians.

I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up.

And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.

I haven't done an international film for a long time.

Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!

Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.