Rewrite Quotes

“Einstein tells a joke. “An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The bartender says: ‘What’ll it be, boys?’ The first mathematician: ‘I’ll have one half of a beer.’ Second mathematician: ‘I’ll have one quarter of a beer. Third mathematician: ‘I’ll have one eighth of a beer.’ Fourth mathematician: ‘I’ll have one sixteenth of a—’ The bartender interrupts, ‘Know your limits, boys,’ as he pours out a single beer.”
― Gregory Benford, Rewrite: Loops in the Timescape

“Maybe education is wasted on the young.”
― Gregory Benford, Rewrite: Loops in the Timescape

“But at my back I always hear / Time’s winged chariot hurrying near,”
― Gregory Benford, Rewrite: Loops in the Timescape

“To expect the world to treat you fairly because you’re a good person, my friend, is like expecting a bull not to charge you because you are a vegetarian.”
― Gregory Benford, Rewrite: Loops in the Timescape

“With the final cut done, Charlie feels like a serious drink. He takes Albert and Robert to Musso and Frank’s, a Hollywood institution decades old, dispenser of millions of martinis to movie minions and majesties alike. Ancient waiters in red half coats glide through the gossip-thick air. In the back room the long bar shields bartenders who could be the fathers of the white-haired waiters from the yammering crowds.”
― Gregory Benford, Rewrite: Loops in the Timescape

“He loves it all anyway, as his first life as a teenager never allowed. Everything is different this time. On Sundays his mother’s lengthy grace doesn’t grate on him. This time he savors each one At high school he recalls who wrote poetry in Klingon, who sold dope, who was really gay and thought nobody knew. Friends, long forgotten by his late forties. As they pass by him again, he has a sad appreciation of how fleeting it all is.”
― Gregory Benford, Rewrite: Loops in the Timescape