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The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.
Arthur C. Clarke • 2001: A Space Odyssey
“As far as the laws of probability, my lady, these cannot be broken, any more than any other mathematical principle. But laws of physics and mathematics are like a coordinate system that runs in only one dimension. Perhaps there is another dimension perpendicular to it, invisible to those laws of physics, describing the same things with different r
... See moreNeal Stephenson • The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)
Prompt: “I want you to act as a novelist. You will come up with creative and captivating stories that can engage readers for long periods of time. You may choose any genre such as fantasy, romance, or historical fiction, but the aim is to write something with an outstanding plot line, engaging characters and unexpected climaxes. My first request is
... See moreNeil Dagger • The ChatGPT Millionaire
As Eich tweeted in July 2017, OTOY is “predicting the holodeck/matrix/metaverse future by building it.”
George Gilder • Life After Google
Anyone who finds himself obliged, in the course of a history, to describe the war between Earth and Mars is humbled by the realization that the tale has already been told to glorious perfection by Rumfoord.
Kurt Vonnegut • The Sirens of Titan
Larry Niven’s ‘Known Space’
Alastair Reynolds • Galactic North
If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms—little par
... See moreRobert B. Leighton • Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
“Your first draft isn’t an unoriginal idea expressed clearly; it’s an original idea expressed poorly, and it is accompanied by your amorphous dissatisfaction, your awareness of the distance between what it says and what you want it to say. That’s what directs you during rewriting, and that’s one of the things lacking when you start with text genera
... See moreThing is, when stupid ideas work, they become genius ideas.