One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

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

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

The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.

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

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.

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.