The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.

The basic idea of Western science is that you don't have to take into account the falling of a leaf on some planet in another galaxy when you're trying to account for the motion of a billiard ball on a pool table on earth. Very small influences can be neglected. There's a convergence in the way things work, and arbitrarily small influences don't blow up to have arbitrarily large effects.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

Running for president is the new selfie.

In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.

Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output.... In weather, for example, this translates into what is only half-jokingly known as the Butter- fly Effect—the notion that a butterfly stirring the air today in Peking can transform storm systems next month in New York.