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There are a hundred thousand species of love, separately invented, each more ingenious than the last, and every one of them keeps making things.
“The demon replaces chance with purpose. It uses information to reduce entropy.”
― The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
― The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
“Alan Turing once whimsically proposed a number N, defined as “the odds against a piece of chalk leaping across the room and writing a line of Shakespeare on the board.”♦”
― The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
― The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
“Thought interferes with the probability of events, and, in the long run therefore, with entropy. —David L. Watson (1930)”
― The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
― The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
“And obsession is just what those too timorous to follow an idea through to its logical conclusion call determination.”
― The Hydrogen Sonata
― The Hydrogen Sonata
“When we suffer we think that the other person has caused our suffering. “She doesn’t love me. So why do I have to love her?” Our natural tendency is to want to punish the other person. And the way we do that is to show her that “I can survive very well without you.” This is an indirect way of saying: “I don’t need you.” But that’s not true love. Many of us have made that mistake. I also have made that mistake. But we learn. In fact, when we suffer we do need the other person. That’s the commitment we made in the beginning of our relationship.”
― No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
― No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
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