Hey, how much longer am I going to be the only person working on this?” “Until you stop discovering new stuff.”
“Henry Ford was afraid that the amount of dirt that was being removed to make room for the foundation of the Empire State Building was so great that it would have a disastrous effect on the rotation of the Earth. Not a genius.”
― New York 2140
― New York 2140
“The company is like an evil vending machine, you put money in and it does what you want, unless somebody else puts more money in and tells it to stop.”
― Exit Strategy
― Exit Strategy
“But that was back in the twentieth century, in the dark ages, the age of fascisms both home and abroad. Since the floods they had learned better, hadn’t they?”
― New York 2140
― New York 2140
“It is fucking crazy to hold on to one moment and say that’s the moment that was pure and sacred, and it can only be like that, and I’ll kill you if you try to change anything.”
― New York 2140
― New York 2140
“I’d spent a blissful week doing nothing but science. No meetings. No distractions. Just experimentation and engineering. I’d forgotten how much fun it was to get immersed in a task.”
― Project Hail Mary
― Project Hail Mary
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