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It was an example of what he thought of as the Law of Controversy: Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.

— Gregory Benford Timescape (1980)

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Would an alien outsider judge America’s performance by My Lai and Wounded Knee or by Lincoln and Jefferson?

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If you were damned certain you weren’t looking for something, there was a very good chance you wouldn’t see it.

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No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.

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Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

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Disintegration of structure equals information loss.

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