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Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.
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Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.
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Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.
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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.
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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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One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.
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Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
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In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
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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 phenomena that can occur.
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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 fiction.
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Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
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I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.
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