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

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

I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.

I like to do things that are surprising and different.

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.

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?

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.