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“Do you know computer science?”
“I know it’s for lamers who can’t handle real math.”

— Rudy Rucker Mathematicians in Love (2006)

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My real speciality is the mathematical analysis of Hilbert Space operators. But this was no time to come on like an ivory-tower idealist.

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“That’s the problem with immortality,” mused Jack. “You never live long enough to get there.”

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The space of our universe is the hypersurface of a vast expanding hypersphere.

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The public revealed its single most predictable trait: fickleness.

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Mother Nature doesn’t want power-tripping greedheads looking up her skirts.

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