60 quotes
“Do you know computer science?”
“I know it’s for lamers who can’t handle real math.”
Mathematicians in Love (2006)
“Relax, Wag.”
“Relaxing makes me tense!” I scream.
Mad Professor (2007)
One last thought: perhaps our universe is perfect.
The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul (2016)
It was good to be outside, away from the TV and the computer. The natural world had such high bandwidth.
Mad Professor (2007)
Was I to be Earth's first casualty in the Attack of the Giant Ass From Hilbert Space?
The Sex Sphere (1983)
Being an artist is hard. Making the stuff and selling it. Both are impossible.
Although my mood swings were the logical and deterministic results of my inputs, they were dismayingly hard for me to foresee, let alone control.
Mathematicians in Love (2006)
A person can describe his actions and personality only as an almost random multitude of particulars, even though the most primal datum of consciousness is unity.
Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite (1982)
Old age is all about killing time.
Mad Professor (2007)
Thanks to environmental decline, kids of Janna’s age had never seen authentic wildlife. So they flipped for the Goob menagerie: marmosets with butterfly wings, starfish that scuttled like earwigs, long, furry frankfurter cat-snakes.
Mad Professor (2007)
The government had recently repealed all speed limits in an attempt to boost oil consumption.
Master of Space and Time (1984)
Kelso had the kind of slit-eyed street smarts that came only from Berkeley law classes.
Mad Professor (2007)
“I’ll wish for ten million more bucks while I’m at it.”
“And immortality?”
“No, no. I don’t want to live forever. Death’s the only thing that keeps me going.”
Master of Space and Time (1984)
My purpose in writing Mind Tools has been to see what follows if one believes that everything is information. I have reached the following (debatable) conclusions.
Mind Tools (1987)
Oh, yeah, she told me about that. I think mysticism’s a bunch of crap. All religions are a bunch of crap.
Master of Space and Time (1984)
Tug was fascinated, and not by the money involved. Like many mathematicians, Mesoglea considered money to be one boring, merely bookkeeping subset of the vast mental universe of general computation.
Mad Professor (2007)
The patterns of mathematics can be roughly grouped into five archetypes: Number, Space, Logic, Infinity, and Information.
Mind Tools (1987)
I knew you’d say that. You’re so anal, Fletcher. Too much math.
Master of Space and Time (1984)
This provender was at a double remove from reality; it was artificially made food that had been further treated in an attempt to make it healthy.
Master of Space and Time (1984)
So what is reality, one more time? An incompressible computation by a fractal CA of inconceivable dimensions. And where is this huge computation taking place? Everywhere; it’s what we’re made of.
Mind Tools (1987)