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"A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules."
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"I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do."

"We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud."

"The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book."

"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."

"Some people - and a high percentage of submissives - wanted clear-cut rules. Preferred their duties laid out, like schedules and lists."
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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."

"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 money publishing an electronic book."

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

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

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

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