The universe is computing its own destiny.

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.

At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.

Running for president is the new selfie.

You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.

He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know, but as the essence of knowing.

I can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human.