Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
THOMAS PYNCHONAll variables are independent.
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My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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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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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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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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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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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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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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But with a sigh he had released her hand, while she was so lost in the fantasy that she hadn’t felt it go away, as if he’d known the best moment to let go.
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All variables are independent.
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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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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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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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Why should things be easy to understand?
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