The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.

For me, the best thing about cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just pretend that the whole thing is two miles below the moon’s surface, and that half the people’s right-brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly it’s interesting again.

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

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.

Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.

The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg Cantor realized, a form of the soul's quest for God. Whether or not the goal is ever reached, an awareness of the process brings enlightenment.

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.