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A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
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How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
by Janna Levin, Oksana Kushnir 3.84 avg rating — 251 ratings
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2002
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11 editions
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Longplayer
by Jem Finer, Janna Levin, Kodwo Eshun 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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2002
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“I don't believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite, their collective opinions, however weighty, won't persuade mother nature to alter her ways. Nature is never wrong.”
― Janna Levin, How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
― Janna Levin, How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
“Maybe truth is just like that. You can see it, but only out of the corner of your eye.
Adele never demands of him any actual conversation. She seems to understand that she is there to keep time and drown out the alarm of more individuated noises. The clink of a pin drop that can fray his nerves, the grinding of gravel beneath the weight of a man on the street, the spike of a dulled conversation as a couple pass beneath his window over Langegasse, the mounting pitch of the conspiratorial exchange as they approach.”
― Janna Levin, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
Adele never demands of him any actual conversation. She seems to understand that she is there to keep time and drown out the alarm of more individuated noises. The clink of a pin drop that can fray his nerves, the grinding of gravel beneath the weight of a man on the street, the spike of a dulled conversation as a couple pass beneath his window over Langegasse, the mounting pitch of the conspiratorial exchange as they approach.”
― Janna Levin, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
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