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Nick is Currently Reading

Nick is currently reading

The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses

by Jesse Schell

bookshelves: game-design, non-fiction, currently-reading

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Dec 07, 2024 10:12PM

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Three Kingdoms (4-Volume Boxed Set)

by Luo Guanzhong

bookshelves: currently-reading, classics

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"Finished the first volume. It's a difficult read, but fascinating. It is easy to see why it has been likened to the Illiad in the past, though it is many times broader in scope and far more complex." — Jan 25, 2013 10:21PM

Mar 31, 2020 07:34PM

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Understanding Earth

by John P. Grotzinger

bookshelves: currently-reading, science, non-fiction

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Apr 14, 2017 08:02AM

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Nick’s Quotes

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: humor, perspective, science

5873 likes

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

tags: design, foolproof, ingenuity

3763 likes

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor

7891 likes

“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

tags: humour

3478 likes

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: fantasy, humor, scifi

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