It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

The universe is computing its own destiny.

You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.

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.

For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match what is already known. Scientific creativity is imagination in a straitjacket.

The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and of the future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information.

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.