‘You know what the McDonald’s girl said to me, in a completely empty restaurant, when I asked for thirty hamburgers and thirty orders of fries?’ ‘What?’ ‘What they always say – “Is this to eat here or to go?”’
“More than power, Duarte made everything that surrounded him seem born of confidence. It was a good trick, because even after Holden saw through it, it still worked.”
― Tiamat's Wrath
― Tiamat's Wrath
“In 1936, Gerhard Gentzen provided a proof of the consistency of arithmetic, but to do it he needed to use a controversial technique known as transfinite induction. This technique is not among the usual methods of proof, and it hardly seemed appropriate for guaranteeing the consistency of arithmetic. What Gentzen had done was prove the obvious by assuming the doubtful.”
― Arrival: Film tie-in
― Arrival: Film tie-in
“By your belief in singularities, in granular absolutes, you deny movement, even the movement of evolution! While you cause a granular universe to persist in your awareness, you are blind to movement. When things change, your absolute universe vanishes, no longer accessible to your self-limiting perceptions. The universe has moved beyond you. —FIRST DRAFT, ATREIDES MANIFESTO, BENE GRESSERIT ARCHIVES”
― Heretics of Dune
― Heretics of Dune
“She looked to me like a librarian is supposed to, slightly stern, with a longer-than-average neck.”
― Themes and Variations
― Themes and Variations
“Simmons hadn’t been too surprised to find Franklin a young bearded man who looked more like he ought to be doing a poetry reading at a college than leading people to look at a classified government facility.”
― Area 51
― Area 51
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