The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.

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.

there is no class that cannot be wiped out if a sufficient number of its members are murdered.

A sad, plangent music. In the British camp, Sharpe thought, they would be singing, but no one was singing here.

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.

In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.

Acting will always be my first passion, it's what I live to do and I hope to be lucky enough to do it the rest of my life.

I have the emotions of a child in the body of a woman. I was rushed into womanhood for the movies. It caused me long moments of unhappiness and doubt.

You can detach your attention from yourself and go anywhere. You can wander the universe. Big deal!

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own

Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms.