It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable..

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

For me, the best thing about cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just pretend that the whole ….

The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg Cantor realized, a form o….

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

Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way..

We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves.

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person..

A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules..

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, b….

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

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

It's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations about the future. We can't predi….

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

I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself. The Mind is not mine alone; the Mind is everywhere..

Our bodies are the time machine..

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

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 mone….

If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anythi….

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

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