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Kitty
14 июля 2015
Listen. In the past, people would stare into the fire for hours when they wanted to think. Or stare at the sea. The endless dancing shapes and patterns would reach far deeper into our minds than we could manage by reason and logic. You see, logic can only proceed from the premises and assumptions we already make, so we just drive round and round in little circles like little clockwork cars. We need dancing shapes to lift us and carry us, but they’re harder to find these days. You can’t stare into a radiator. You can’t stare into the sea. Well, you can, but it’s covered with plastic bottles and used condoms, so you just sit there getting cross. All we have to stare into is the white noise. The stuff we sometimes call information, but which is really just a babble rising in the air.
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Kitty
14 июля 2015
Where do you get the inspiration for your books? I tell myself I can’t have another cup of coffee till I’ve thought of an idea.
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Kitty
14 июля 2015
“Were you not expecting to go to Albuquerque today, sir?” “I was expecting to end up somewhere I didn’t expect, I just wasn’t expecting it to be Albuquerque, that’s all.”
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Kitty
14 июля 2015
Obviously. It was designed to make you want it. If people had turned out not to want it very much, the makers would have redesigned it and redesigned it until they did. The world is now full of things like this, which is, of course, why everybody is in such a permanent state of want.
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Kitty
14 июля 2015
Don’t worry. Everything is getting nicely out of control.
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Kitty
14 июля 2015
Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there’s no point trying to look in that direction because it won’t be coming from there.
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Kitty
14 июля 2015
Life, he was fond of telling himself, was like an ocean. You can either grind your way across it like a motorboat or you can follow the winds and the currents — in other words, go sailing.
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Kitty
14 июля 2015
Without a god, life is only a matter of opinion.
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Kitty
14 июля 2015
Wandering around the Web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science-fiction devices that deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them.
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Kitty
14 июля 2015
We should not have to be tyrannised by application designers who don’t know the first thing about how actual people do their actual work, we should be able to just pick up the bits we like and paste them in.
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Kitty
14 июля 2015
Whatever new extremities of discovery or understanding we reach, we always seem to find the footsteps of Bach there already. When we see images of the strange mathematical beasts lurking at the heart of the natural world — fractal landscapes, the infinitely unfolding paisley whorls of the Mandelbrot Set, the Fibonacci series, which describes the pattern of leaves growing on the stem of a plant, the Strange Attractors that beat at the heart of chaos — it is always the dizzying, complex spirals of Bach that come to mind.
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Haruko
5 декабря 2016
"I love deadlines,” he has said. “I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."
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