Try living forever with the metaprogram, 'Everything works out more perfectly than I plan it.

Voting wouldn't excite me unless it included electing the directors of the big banks and corporations, who make the real decisions that affect our lives. It's hard to get excited about the trained seals in Washington.

Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.

I've recently noticed "as if for the first time" that when people pray they always look "upward" - i.e. perpendicular to whatever place they're standing - or kneeling or groveling. I deduce that they conceive of their "god" as topologically isomorphic to a huge donut, about a thousand miles wider than Earth.

There's a seeker born every minute.

The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.

Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.