Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.

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

The universe is computing its own destiny.

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

"Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy. It took him a while to realize how obsessively his new friend was tunneling into the very bedrock of modern science.

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

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.