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.

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

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!

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

Our bodies are the time machine.

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

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