2001: A Space Odyssey was a wonderful conundrum when I was a boy, with its giant concepts thrown across the giant screen at Indian Hills Theater. That movie woke me up in ways that I hadn't imagined, and I went searching for book versions of the same drug.

How could anyone survive even a single day, if he didn't feel as if he was, in some little great way, needed?

I can't point to a moment or incident that made me see that this business, this putting down words on paper, was what I would do for the rest of my lucid life. But apparently, that is my calling.

A community that learns together excels together. We need to form communities that learn together.

2001: A Space Odyssey was a wonderful conundrum when I was a boy, with its giant concepts thrown across the giant screen at Indian Hills Theater. That movie woke me up in ways that I hadn't imagined, and I went searching for book versions of the same drug.

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.