“Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed—remember you can go anywhere.”
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“Daniel understood the complaint. For Daniel, too, had once designed a building, and savored the thrill of seeing it built, only to endure the long indignity of watching the owner clutter it up with knick-knacks and furniture.”
― The System of the World
― The System of the World
“Computation, after all, implied a problem not yet solved, insights not yet achieved. There was really only one sort of program for which foreknowledge of the outcome didn't diminish the point of exercise, and Brüks had never been able to find any religious orders that described God as a porn addict.”
― Echopraxia
― Echopraxia
“The best teachers impart knowledge through sleight of hand, like a magician.”
― My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine
― My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine
“Planck length and Planck time had always looked a bit too much like pixel dimensions for comfort.”
― Echopraxia
― Echopraxia
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