I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.

The basic idea of Western science is that you don't have to take into account the falling of a leaf on some planet in another galaxy when you're trying to account for the motion of a billiard ball on a pool table on earth. Very small influences can be neglected. There's a convergence in the way things work, and arbitrarily small influences don't blow up to have arbitrarily large effects.

Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had.

The universe is computing its own destiny.

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.

It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.