The Humans
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Then I consumed something else. A foodstuff wrapped in synthetic packaging. This was, I would later realize, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside clothing. Bodies inside wrappers. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was
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“Early success is a terrible teacher.”
― An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
― An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
“There was, in the space of little more than an hour, in Steve Bannon’s not unamused observation, a befuddled Trump morphing into a disbelieving Trump and then into a quite horrified Trump. But still to come was the final transformation: suddenly, Donald Trump became a man who believed that he deserved to be and was wholly capable of being the president of the United States.”
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
“From the point of view of a mayfly, human beings are stolid, boring, almost entirely immovable, offering hardly a hint that they ever do anything. From the point of view of a star, a human being is a tiny flash, one of billions of brief lives flickering tenuously on the surface of a strangely cold, anomalously solid, exotically remote sphere of silicate and iron.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“At 1995 hours the sound pickups in Ezwick’s lab had transmitted a whunga-whunga-whunga sort of sound that deepened into a fuller, richer, and more satisfying ronk! ronk! ronk!”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,” a former math whiz at Facebook recently lamented.33”
― Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
― Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
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