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“Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.”
― Anathem
― Anathem
“The rough-and-ready intellectual consensus of the mid-Twentieth Century is being pushed out by a New Superstition whose victims can find testimony on the Internet for anything they choose to believe. The only cure for it is reading books, and lots of them.”
― Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing – A Brilliant Collection on Science and Technology from Newton to Star Wars
― Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing – A Brilliant Collection on Science and Technology from Newton to Star Wars
“Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear”
― Rebecca
― Rebecca
“Heartless reality does not grant humans the lifespan necessary to master every specialty of science, so no one genius in his secret lab can really bring robots, mutants, and clones into the world at his mad whim--it takes a team, masses of funds, and decades. But one man can love all sciences, even if he cannot wield them, and he can inspire children with the model of the mad genius, even if he cannot live it.”
― Too Like the Lightning
― Too Like the Lightning
“Our cultures used to be almost hereditary, but now we choose them from a menu as various as the food court of a suburban shopping mall. Ambition, curiosity, talent, sexuality or religion can draw us to new cities and cultures, where we become foreigners to our parents. Synthetic cultures are nimbler than old ones, often imprudently so. They have scattered so widely that they can no longer hear each other and now some have gone so far afield that they have passed through the apocalypse while the rest of us are watching it on TV.”
― Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing – A Brilliant Collection on Science and Technology from Newton to Star Wars
― Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing – A Brilliant Collection on Science and Technology from Newton to Star Wars
code{4}lib
— 62 members
— last activity Apr 04, 2014 05:44AM
-- because the curly brackets say it all. Welcome to the #code4lib book club. We're loosely affiliated librarians [usually, but not always] that work ...more
Infinite Summer
— 303 members
— last activity Jun 21, 2019 03:36PM
For all those planning to read Infinite Jest this summer starting June 21. Support, encouragement and gentle pushes welcome.
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