Buridan’s donkey is standing halfway between a pile of hay and a bucket of water. It keeps looking left and right, trying to decide between hay and water. Unable to decide, it eventually dies of hunger and thirst.
“But the world is a quantum one, and gelatinous spacetime is also an approximation.”
― The Order of Time
― The Order of Time
“We long for timelessness, we endure the passing of time: we suffer time. Time is suffering.”
― The Order of Time
― The Order of Time
“I told NASA what I did. Our (paraphrased) conversation was: Me: “I took it apart, found the problem, and fixed it.” NASA: “Dick.”
― The Martian
― The Martian
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