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"I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break."

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

"Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules."

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

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


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


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


"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."


"Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail."


"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."


"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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