Logic Beach Quotes

“What a lovely thing utopia is when you were too young to remember the horror that came with it.”
― Exurb1a, Logic Beach: Part I

“However we feel about this, Arcadia was built with pure autonomy in mind. Autonomy is only true autonomy when you allow others to go in directions you don’t condone. All else is just ethical masturbation.”
― Exurb1a, Logic Beach: Part I

“That which is abandoned in the name of efficiency was often an essential part after all.”
― Exurb1a, Logic Beach: Part I

“This was matter’s most honest state in any case; superposition, quantum tunnelling, entanglement, cleavance, wormhole fracture; all of the strange furniture of quantum mechanics appeared to be the universe’s true face. All else was matter trying to seem sober, putting on laws for show.”
― Exurb1a, Logic Beach: Part I

“Students were laying about on the grass, accruing debt and trying to fuck each other.”
― Exurb1a, Logic Beach: Part I

“People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
― Exurb1a, Logic Beach: Part I

“A statue waited before them, a sapien male made entirely of glass, the height of ten market stalls. “The Glass King,” Kaluza whispered. “You read about him?” “A little.” “The Glass King built Arcadia, understand? The world was made, not formed. Thousands of years ago, by the sapien metric.” “Why?” “Why what?” “Why did he build Arcadia?” “Because sapiens broke easily, and even if they stayed careful they still wore down and died. Not so deep into their history they’d peered into physics and wrapped the universe up in equations and built huge societies, and they still hadn’t done a thing about death. The Glass King vowed to kill it.” “To kill death?” “To kill death.”
― Exurb1a, Logic Beach: Part I

“Time is the medium by which matter will organise itself into a perfect state.”
― Exurb1a, Logic Beach: Part I