The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.

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

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

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

Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.

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.

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.