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.

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

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

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

The world is colors and motion, feelings and thoughts and what does math have to do with it? Not much, if 'math' means being bored in high school, but in truth mathematics is the one universal science. Mathematics is the study of pure pattern and everything in the cosmos is a kind of pattern.

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

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.