As human beings, don’t we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?
ALAN LIGHTMANI have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can’t just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it’s really in how the technology is used.
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One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time.
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In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
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What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we’re going.
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With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice.
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In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.
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Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.
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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.
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I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary.
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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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I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together.
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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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