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 think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.

If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.

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

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

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

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