Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.

In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.

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.

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

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own.... It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism.