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“There was no arguing with blood.”
“In Technology We Trust. Need to put that on the new hundred-dollar bill.”
“[H]er mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by[.]”
“He was certifiably insane, an Ayn Rander who fancied himself an bermensch and the Singularitys chosen avatar,”
“The mark of a legitimate revolution - the scientific, for example - was that it didn't brag about its revolutionariness but simply occurred.”
“I'm starting to think paradise isn't eternal contentment. It's more like there's something eternal about feeling contented. There's no such thing as eternal life, because you're never going to outr...”
“Their marriages had been Old Testament, hers a matter of honoring her covenant with Charles, Tom's a matter of fearing Anabel's wrath and judgement. In the New Testament, the only things that matte...”
“[P]art of having a complicated mind was understanding its limits, understanding that it couldn't think of everything. Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own st...”
“There's the imperative to keep secrets, and the imperative to have them known. How do you know that you're a person, distinct from other people? By keeping certain things to yourself. You guard the...”
“It's nice to be able to control my smell environment, and I can hear myself think better when it's quiet. It wasn't easy to become a person who's OK being alone on a Saturday night, but I did the w...”
“In terms of having an experience, seriously contemplating a murder was almost as good as going through with it, and it had the added benefit of not entailing risk. Between prison and no prison, no ...”
“The reason they outperformed her was that they accepted each new product without trying to understand it. They got behind the new pitch wholeheartedly, even when it was risible and/or made no sense...”
“Tom's theory of why human beings had yet to receive any message from extraterrestrial intelligences was that all civilizations, without exception, blew themselves up almost as soon as they were abl...”
