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this odd academic who seemed to be located in the world without being part of it,
When one’s home has a really excellent computer capable of reaching other computers anywhere in the Galaxy, one scarcely needs to budge, you know.
“I have always found in my own work—quite different from yours, of course, but possibly we may generalize—that zeroing in tightly on a particular problem is self-defeating. Why not relax and talk about something else, and your unconscious mind—not laboring under the weight of concentrated thought—may solve the problem for you.”
“It’s interesting. It is. But—but—so what?”
All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
‘The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.’ ”
“We abandoned the appearance of power to preserve the essence of it.”
