To say that the universe exists is silly, because it says that the universe is one of the things in the universe. So there's something wrong with questions like, "What caused the Universe to exist?"

To say that the universe exists is silly, because it says that the universe is one of the things in the universe. So there's something wrong with questions like, "What caused the Universe to exist?"

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

Minds are simply what brains do.