History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looking -- an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, controlled everything.
Kim Stanley RobinsonWe dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.
Kim Stanley RobinsonIn an expanding universe, order is not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy possible.
Kim Stanley Robinson