There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

... nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment - maybe a single pulse of some giant processor somewhere.

I walk alone in the darkness and wonder how a person would begin to determine the circumference of the earth. I have no idea. I’d probably just google it.

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it's actually you that's time-shifted?

A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message.