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

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!

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

Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.

I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.

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.