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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
“Yes, you’re in charge. That makes me XO, and it’s the XO’s job to tell the captain when he’s being an idiot. You’re being an idiot, sir.”
― Leviathan Wakes
― Leviathan Wakes
“My message to you is this: pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important: what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.”
― Exhalation
― Exhalation
“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
“The circle of life on Ceres was so small you could see the curve.”
― Leviathan Wakes
― Leviathan Wakes
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