Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
A quixotic intellectual troubadour, he has prosecuted a series of discrete visions united only by a potent sense of curiosity and a provocative optimism.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
An odd sort of a friendship developed between the young Lovelace and the older Babbage. Growing up in the shadow of her famously philandering father, the poet and baron George Byron, whom she barely knew, Ada had been discouraged from literary study. Her mother, Lady Anne Isabella Byron, a strict Christian and a formidable intellect in her own
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Cixin Liu • The Wandering Earth
This spirited, intelligent, anarchic Eve reminds me of H. G. Wells’s Ann Veronica, an exemplary New Woman of 1909.
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
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George Saunders
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