K. A. Schloegel > K. A.'s Quotes

“Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

“It was such an unusual swear word that later on Nona was able to swop it to Honesty for five whole cigarettes, he was that impressed.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

“Camilla said Captain Deuteros thought the solution to every problem was to act like the problem had one solution that nobody else was tough enough to take, and then to pursue that solution as hard as possible.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

“Fix me, and I am taken by the unknown. Kill me, for the love of the Reverend Daughter. Oh, do you think you are the only one who knows how to die, Nav? I knew you were dead to see you … I will commit this apocalyptic sin. I will die for her. She is my nurseling. I am the only one who knows how to die for the Reverend Daughter Harrowhark Nonagesimus.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

“But from where I’m sitting, hope seems a lot like white liquor. It can fool you in the short run, but like as not, you’ll end up paying for it twice.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“An empire cannot be destroyed from without till it is destroyed from within.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Only in this nonexistent place our letters weave do I feel weak.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“She was always going to eat it down to the root.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“She is useless to the war effort like this. Might as well shovel snow. But she is a hero, and heroes can shovel snow if they like.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“She rips the envelope open with her thumb and reads, and by the second line, her cheeks hurt from the fierceness of her smile.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“With only 300 bits, you could assign a unique barcode to each of the 1090 elementary particles in the universe.”
― Seth Lloyd, Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos

“Because the universe supports quantum computation and can be efficiently simulated by a quantum computer, the universe is neither more nor less computationally powerful than a universal quantum computer.”
― Seth Lloyd, Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos

“as pointed out by Edward Fredkin of Carnegie Mellon University and Tommaso Toffoli of Boston University, atomic collisions naturally perform AND, OR, NOT, and COPY logic operations. In the language of information processing, atomic collisions are computationally universal.”
― Seth Lloyd, Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos

“So (if Moore’s law can be sustained until then) we should be able to buy an ultimate laptop in the store by 2205.”
― Seth Lloyd, Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos

“The effective complexity of a living system can be defined as the number of bits of information that affect the system’s ability to consume energy and reproduce.”
― Seth Lloyd, Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos