The world is colors and motion, feelings and thoughts and what does math have to do with it? Not much, if 'math' means being bored in high school, but in truth mathematics is the one universal science. Mathematics is the study of pure pattern and everything in the cosmos is a kind of pattern.

Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.

A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.

It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.

If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.