A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.

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

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.

Lately I’ve been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.

When I see an old movie, like from the ’40s or ’50s or ’60s, the people look so calm. They don’t have smartphones, they’re not looking at computer screens, they’re taking their time. They’ll sit in a chair and just stare off into space. I think some day we’ll find our way back to that garden of Eden.

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

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