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Samuel R. Delany
“You can program a computer to make mistakes, and you do it not by crossing wires, but by manipulating the 'language' you teach it to 'think' in.”
Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17

Oliver Sacks
“We have, each of us, a life-story, an inner narrative — whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. It might be said that each of us constructs and lives, a “narrative,” and that this narrative is us, our identities.

If we wish to know about a man, we ask “what is his story — his real, inmost story?” — for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us — through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations. Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives — we are each of us unique.”
Oliver Sacks

Samuel R. Delany
“No way to say warm in French. There was only hot and tepid. If there’s no word for it, how do you think about it?”
Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17

James S.A. Corey
“You take care of your tools, your tools take care of you.”
James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath

Samuel R. Delany
“When you learn another tongue, you learn the way another people see the world, the universe.”
Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17

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