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

A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.

We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves

Think of a field of daisies: they bloom, they wither, and in the spring they grow again. Who wants to see the same stupid daisy year after year, especially with a bunch of crappy iron-lung-type equipment bolted to it?

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.

I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.

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.