“When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced."
[Books vs. Goons, L.A. Times, April 24, 2005]”
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[Books vs. Goons, L.A. Times, April 24, 2005]”
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“You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.”
― The Razor’s Edge
― The Razor’s Edge
“There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.”
― Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
― Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.”
― River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
― River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
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