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 history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.

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.

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist. ... The unfamiliar and the strange - these are the domain of all children and scientists.

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.