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If patterns of ones and zeros were ‘like’ patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?

Thomas Pynchon

Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Computer Information Technology Transformation
All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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Abstract Fear Human Investigation Mortal Time True
If patterns of ones and zeros were ‘like’ patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?
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Computer Creature Death Human Kind Live Mathematics Patten Record Representation
What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.
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Evil Goodness Meaning Myself People Sold Trust
Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.
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Afraid Death Himself Human Land Live Lonely Sea
The reality is in this head. Mine. I’m the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.
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Eyes Head Reality Universe Visible
You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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Creature God Himself People Touch Yourself
There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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Emotion Realist Sentimental
Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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History Moments Ourselves
They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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Let Go Planning Sleep
He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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Born Decision Greatness Home Sick Suffering Temporary
What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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Age Enemy Himself Man
Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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Change Enough Hairs Life Yourself
Shall I project a world?
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One Liner World
If there is something comforting – religious, if you want – about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.
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Comfortable Condition Connection Health Mental Religious Sick Worry
Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Illusion Invisible Temporary Yourself

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