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.

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

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

All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.

If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

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