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I’ve taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it’s a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.

Alan Lightman

When I used to play golf. It’s a terrible miserable game. It’s incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water…
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Game Golf Play Terrible Use
I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
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Appreciate Book Ideas Person Society
The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.
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Accident History Phenomena Recast Science View
The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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Back First Forth Iron Massive Metallic Pendulum Rigid Swing
What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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Continue Future See Sense
In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.
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Beyond Cliff Future Hang Laugh Nothingness Present
I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, and that we should be searching, individually, for meaning in our lives. But I don’t believe there’s a supreme being, an intelligence that created everything.
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Believe Create Everything Individual Meaning Ourselves Search Supreme
All of these things can occur with or without God. I do not believe in the existence of God, but I consider myself a spiritual person in the manner I have just described. I call myself a spiritual atheist. I would imagine that many people are spiritual atheists.
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Appreciation Consider Existence Larger Nature Spiritual Thing
Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself.
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Dixxle Pace Proceed Technology
I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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Belief Contradict Determine Evidence Experiment Method Oppose Science
Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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Each Same Time True Truth
And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don’t think that we will become the machines of the machines.
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Human Imagination Machine Match Mind Since Technology Unlikely
When they are on their cell phones they are not where their bodies are…they are somewhere else in hyperspace. They are not grounded.
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Body Cell Ground Hyperspace Phone Somewhere
I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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Down Emotion Move Musical Piano Something World Wrestling
I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.
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Borge Distorted Highly Interest Magic Realistic Truth Word
Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions?
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Argue Decision Light Make Occur Possible Some

I’ve taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it’s a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.

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