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“Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.”
― Shaping Things
― Shaping Things
“There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.”
― Ender’s Game
― Ender’s Game
“No, no - I think about thinking”
― I Am a Strange Loop
― I Am a Strange Loop
“[...] provability is a weaker notion than truth”
― Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
― Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
“I turn away from him and step into the vastness of New Crobuzon, this towering edifice of architecture and history, this complexitude of money and slum, this profane steam-powered god. I turn and walk into the city my home, not bird or garuda, not miserable crossbreed.
I turn and walk into my home, the city, a man.”
― Perdido Street Station
I turn and walk into my home, the city, a man.”
― Perdido Street Station
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