Intuition was not just visual but also auditory and kinesthetic. Those who watched Feynman in moments of intense concentration came away with a strong, even disturbing sense of the physicality of the process, as though his brain did not stop with the grey matter but extended through every muscle in his body.

Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.

When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it immediately as the god he worshiped. After all, "he seldom did anything without consulting it: he called it his oracle, and said it pointed out the time for every action in his life." To Jonathan Swift in 1726 that was worth a bit of satire. Modernity was under way. We're all Gullivers now. Or are we Yahoos?

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.

Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.

I can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human.

We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.