“Hux refused to pace, regarding it as a waste of energy.”
― Star Wars: The Force Awakens
― Star Wars: The Force Awakens
“The brain is locked in total darkness, of course, children, says the voice. It floats in a clear liquid inside the skull, never in the light. And yet the world it constructs in the mind is full of light. It brims with color and movement. So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“A demonic horde. Upended sacks of beans. A hundred broken rosaries. There are a thousand metaphors and all of them are inadequate: forty bombs per aircraft, four hundred and eighty altogether, seventy-two thousand pounds of explosives.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“What we do now creates damage that hits decades later, so we don’t charge ourselves for it, and the standard approach has been that future generations will be richer and stronger than us, and they’ll find solutions to their problems. But by the time they get here, these problems will have become too big to solve. That’s the tragedy of the time horizon, that we don’t look more than a few years ahead, or even in many cases, as with high-speed trading, a few micro-seconds ahead. And the tragedy of the time horizon is a true tragedy.”
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“Strange how one remembered faces until you tried to look at them in your mind, when they turned away from you.”
― Mars Trilogy: Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars
― Mars Trilogy: Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars
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