“The palimpsests of molecules need not be overwritten, for machines make once-ephemeral words persist: they collect in gutters; they pile up and require sweeping; they hang in air like morning fog.” — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“I still have enough faith in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on the page, they will start to speak with sounds of their own.” — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it occurs to me that I think about you more than I ought to think about anything besides physics. Look at Nikola Tesla.… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“I am going to tell a story now, and though I've made a life out of writing words, this is the first time I… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“A number of terrible things about falling in love make it not worth the time and the effort. But the worst of these is… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“Write down everything you remember. You’ll want to have it written down to look back on later, when your mind sands all the sharp… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“Hello, Tracey Wilson, from the great state of Illinois! I think Fanny and Alexander is a great choice for a weekend rental. It’s one… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“I’m very self-motivated,” she’d state with an assertiveness that she didn’t quite feel in her gut, and the HR guy would look down at… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“You had a duty not to squander your human potential. You were supposed to go out and shape the world in your image. Just—”… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“I want you to know that I'm just like you, and, just like you, sometimes I have a little trouble holding things together.” — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“Any story told in this machine age must be a story of fragments, for fragments are all the world has left: interrupted threads of… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“If there are very few eureka moments, then at least there are a thousand little failures, that point the way toward a hundred little… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“This is why it's good manners to give gifts in wrappers: so that, for a moment, that beast in all of us that makes… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“There are no new stories in the world anymore, and no more storytellers. There is nothing left but fragments of phrases that signaled their… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“But even though she was wise beyond her years, she was still young, and so was I, and all of our words were drowned… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“So if Rebecca wanted to hear the news about someone, she either had to e-mail them (which was only a little less weirdly formal… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“Big Data’s gift, the way it kept itself growing stronger, was in its ability to persuade the majority of people that the unique collection… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
