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"A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules."
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"I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break."
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"And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight."
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"I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules."
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"He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."
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"The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book."
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"You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity."
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"I've always found ways to bend the rules."
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"You are remembered for the rules you break."
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"A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline."
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"I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules."
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"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."
Money


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


"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 bang around."
Books


"The hard fact is that not everyone does get published."
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"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 anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!"
Life


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


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


"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."
Being


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