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

If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!

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

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

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

A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.

I like to do things that are surprising and different.