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 PYNCHONEvery weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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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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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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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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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.
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Information. What’s wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world’s gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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