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Your brain requires only about four hundred calories of energy a day—about the same as you get in a blueberry muffin. Try running your laptop for twenty-four hours on a muffin and see how far you get.
“It is no coincidence that "aspiration" means both hope and the act of breathing.”
― The Great Silence
― The Great Silence
“Not as romantic as a dozen roses,” she countered. “Still,” he said, “what is it that a man is trying to say with a dozen roses? Simply that he is thinking of you.” Shortly”
― Seveneves
― Seveneves
“When I first arrived, Lord Dariush told me he is a casual student of languages, and he loved that my name hearkens back to a rare dialect of Old Parian. In the full week since then, I’ve deduced that by ‘casual’ he means he’s fluent in six dead tongues, and has done his own translations of several ancient masterpieces. He derides his own efforts as derivative, an idle pastime not worth the parchment he scrawls them on: ‘Still, it keeps me out of trouble. Some hunt fowls, I hunt vowels.’ He’d laughed. I’d chuckled along dutifully.”
― The Burning White
― The Burning White
“The circle of life on Ceres was so small you could see the curve.”
― Leviathan Wakes
― Leviathan Wakes
“The idea of thinking in a linguistic yet nonphonological mode always intrigued me. I had a friend born of deaf parents; he grew up using American Sign Language, and he told me that he often thought in ASL instead of English. I used to wonder what it was like to have one’s thoughts be manually coded, to reason using an inner pair of hands instead of an inner voice. With Heptapod B, I was experiencing something just as foreign: my thoughts were becoming graphically coded. There were trance-like moments during the day when my thoughts weren’t expressed with my internal voice; instead, I saw semagrams with my mind’s eye, sprouting like frost on a windowpane. As”
― Stories of Your Life and Others
― Stories of Your Life and Others
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