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

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

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Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

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“Everything is cellular. Reality is cellular. I really love that word, cellular. Cellular phone, cellular foam, sleeper cell, cellulite, cellular automata . . . A cell can be anything! . . . It's cellular. It's quantum dots. It's quantum and cellular and bosonic. It's bosonic cellular quantum dottiness. With ribbons on." -- Jimmy Ganzer, 'Good Night, Moon”

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I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.

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Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science…

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

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“No one can point to the fourth dimension, yet it is all around us.”

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

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

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

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At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can…

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Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

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