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For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality.…
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You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment....
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Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not…
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Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.
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Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.
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The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.
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The universe is computing its own destiny.
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It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.
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Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a…
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Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output.... In weather, for example, this translates into what is only half-jokingly…
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Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.
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The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of…
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Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.
— Alton Brown
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Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.
— Julie Burchill
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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
— Italo Calvino
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Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
— Samuel Johnson
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I think that of all the diseases in the world, the disease that all humankind suffers from, the disease that is most…
— Rich Mullins
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Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony…
— Theodore Parker
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
— Socrates
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Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
— Socrates
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Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.
— Charles Lamb
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Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.
— John Dryden
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Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also…
— Gary Taubes
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