Stephen Mann

“We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1

“In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word?”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths

“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“Trying to predict the future is a mug’s game. But increasingly it’s a game we all have to play because the world is changing so fast and we need to have some sort of idea of what the future’s actually going to be like because we are going to have to live there, probably next week.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time