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

Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as ifit were an abstract, mathematical space. A less obvious innovation due to perspective is that here, for the first time, people are actually drawing pictures of infinities.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.

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

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

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