Karl-Mikael Syding

“The contact was extremely weird, not so much filling his mind with information but surrounding it with massive lumbering routines. Bizarrely, his mind chose to interpret it as being in the middle of a herd of elephants as they clustered around a water hole. He chose a single routine at random and tried to focus on it. The tenuous specter expanded around him in the same way the clouds of Kingsnest had kept growing during the Diligent’s approach.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Exodus: The Archimedes Engine

“The fox knows many tricks; the hedgehog one good one.”
― Archilochus

“Five Regal hands were raised with studied nonchalance.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Exodus: The Archimedes Engine

“Decoherence – entanglement with the environment – is the very process by which information passes from the quantum system to its environment. It’s what makes this information accessible: what makes the pointer move. Thanks to einselection, the information gets filtered in the process so that only the pointer states survive.”
― Philip Ball, Beyond Weird