The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.
THOMAS PYNCHONThere was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.
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Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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All variables are independent.
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It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
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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?
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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