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“I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.”
― Heretics of Dune
― Heretics of Dune
“Belief fixes a granular universe and causes that universe to persist. Nothing can be allowed to change because that way your non-moving universe vanishes. But it moves of itself when you do not. It evolves beyond you and is no longer accessible to you.”
― Heretics of Dune
― Heretics of Dune
“There's no reassuring ceiling over you, Moneo. Only an open sky full of changes. Welcome it. Every sense you possess is an instrument for reacting to change. Does that tell you nothing?”
― God Emperor of Dune
― God Emperor of Dune
“The art of programming is the skill of controlling complexity.”
― Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming
― Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming
“...Вы знаете, конечно, что время - это слабый настой смерти. Нам постоянно, медленно подливают его, словно безвредное снадобье. Сначала он оживляет нас, и мы даже начинаем верить, что мы почти что бессмертны. Но день за днем и капля за каплей - он становится все крепче и крепче и в конце концов превращается в едкую кислоту, которая мутит и разрушает нашу кровь. И даже если бы мы захотели ценой оставшихся лет купить молодость, - мы не смогли бы сделать этого потому, что кислота времени изменила нас, а химические соединения уже не те, теперь уже требуется чудо...”
― The Night in Lisbon
― The Night in Lisbon
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