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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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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
— Hal Borland
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I've got a long history of suicid in my family; the good news is it skips a generation, so, if I'm lucky,…
— Anthony Jeselnik
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We know that death never skips or spares anybody and that no one ever returns. And yet we go on like the…
— Martin Luther
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Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman…
— C.S. Lewis
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A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.
— Nicholas Johnson
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Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.
— Keanu Reeves
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement…
— Alan Lightman
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While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
— Alan Lightman
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement…
— Alan Lightman
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No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know…
— Hal Borland
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