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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e2272dd | It's the natural trajectory of a writing career that a writer becomes better at being herself. | Amy Hempel | ||
| 2332ed0 | The Beauties" by Anton Chekhov, "The Doll's House" by Katherine Mansfield, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by J. D. Salinger, "Brownies" or "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" both by ZZ Packer, "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried" by Amy Hempel, "Fat" by Raymond Carver, "Indian Camp" by Ernest Hemingway." | Gabrielle Zevin | ||
| 17d0fd1 | I am so suggestible. When Chatty asks if I am hungry, I say, "I could be." I would try to become the woman you wanted without even knowing I was trying. As it is, I am barely the woman I am." | Amy Hempel | ||
| 41b36bf | Tutto quello che ho fatto con te era amore. | Amy Hempel | ||
| 870df3e | I'm not a privacy nut, and I don't care that much if these organizations want to know where I go and what I buy. But what bothers me is how HARD they're all working for that data, how much money they're spending, and how they never admit that's what they want. It means that information must be really valuable for some reason, and I just wonder to who and why. | Max Barry | ||
| 05e21f8 | She could taste loss in the back of her throat so badly that she could vomit. | Max Barry | ||
| 194f760 | I tended to be skeptical of anything that couldn't be measured, written down, and independently verified across a series of double-blind tests. But this was hard data. Lola's heart beat fastest for me. | love science | Max Barry | |
| c66d937 | intransigent." "Well," | Max Barry | ||
| 5c759fa | She put the words back in the envelope, because fuck doing that again. | Max Barry | ||
| 2fa7bfc | You've delegated the ability to make up your mind. | Max Barry | ||
| 9944660 | After a while, he sat. She leaned her head on his shoulder. She felt very close to him. "I promise not to turn you into my thought slave," she said, and felt him smile a little. But she had thought about it." | Max Barry | ||
| 2bc570c | My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this room was intelligent enough to keep away from hot things, sharp things, and things carrying large stores of momentum. | machine-man safety | Max Barry | |
| 62c7ca3 | Of course, human tissue completely It's unlikely that scar was composed of the same molecules. Do you think it is really appropriate to consider people to be the same entity they were seven years earlier? Because, physically, they're not. They're connected but every part has changed. Like a renovated house. It seems like after seven years you should not be liable for things you did before. Why should a man be imprisoned for a crime committe.. | Max Barry | ||
| e3121db | You went to school," Lee said. "I mean, at some point. And it didn't suit you very well. They wanted to teach you things you didn't care about. Dates and math and trivia about dead presidents. They didn't teach persuasion. Your ability to persuade is the single most important determinant of your quality of life, and they didn't cover that at all. Well, we do. And we're looking for students with natural aptitude." | lexicon persuasion school | Max Barry | |
| 3a1feac | 'You can't stop me. Your word voodoo, it doesn't work on me. Right? So how do you think you're going to-' Eliot produced a pistol. He didn't seem to pull it from anywhere. He just suddenly had it. Wil's eyes stung. 'See?' Eliot put away the gun. 'There are all kinds of persuasion.' | persuasion weapons word-voodoo words | Max Barry | |
| 597cb7a | 'Your brain doesn't process language quite like other people. Why that is, I have no idea.' 'I have a superior brain?' 'Uh,' Eliot said, 'I wouldn't go that far.' | language lexicon mind-over-matter | Max Barry | |
| 713b514 | She's such a bitch," Tina says, which I find a little contradictory, but overall quite true. "She's got to be in charge of everything." I sit next to her. "Well, I guess. But in business, that's leadership." Tina stares at me for a second. "I can't believe you consider that a positive trait. How about her inability to accept other points of view? Is it good leadership to be narrow, too?" "Focus," I say. "They call that focus." Tina stares a.. | business-culture humor | Max Barry | |
| fff0a3a | With Lola, everything was solvable. She was my independent variable. | Max Barry | ||
| 305bb12 | For them, the last option was to have brain surgery, which involved removing parts of the skull and exposing the brain. (Since the brain has no pain sensors, a person can be conscious during this entire procedure, so Dr. Penfield used only a local anesthetic during the operation.) | Michio Kaku | ||
| 08c65d9 | By 2020, the flat panel displays will likely come in a variety of forms. They will be miniaturized to work as wristwatch screens and may be added to eyeglasses or key chains. Eventually, they will become so cheap they will be everywhere: on the backs of airplane seats, in photo albums, in elevators, on notepads, on billboards, on the sides of buses and trains. They may one day be as common as paper. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 1490586 | l~ lrGm mn Grbth, lyst l'Hlm trf zy'd, wlyst bqy Gyr mfyd@ ldmG khml. l'Hlm fy lHqyqy@ Drwry@ llbq. bstkhdm mswHt ldmG, mn lmmkn Zhr 'n b`D lHywnt tZhr nshT dmGy yshbh l'Hlm. dh Hrmt hdhh lHywnt mn l'Hlm fswf tmwt mn ljw` bsr`@ 'kbr, l'n hdh lHrmn syGyr bshkl shdyd mn stqlbh. lsw lHZ, l`lm l y`lm blDbT sbb hdhh lHl@. | Michio Kaku | ||
| eac7989 | In making these predictions, I have had the invaluable assistance of scientists who graciously allowed me to interview them, broadcast their ideas on national radio, and even take a TV crew into their laboratories. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 303a110 | I once wrote a biography of Albert Einstein, called Einstein's Cosmos, and had to delve into the minute details of his private life. I had known that Einstein's youngest son was afflicted with schizophrenia, but did not realize the enormous emotional toll that it had taken on the great scientist's life. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 983c1a3 | If at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it. | Michio Kaku | ||
| b4fada5 | If you remove a single transistor in the digital computer's central processor, the computer will fail. | Michio Kaku | ||
| bf530ef | Our eyes also fool us into thinking we can see depth. The retinas of our eyes are two-dimensional, but because we have two eyes separated by a few inches, the left and right brain merge these two images, giving us the false sense of a third dimension. | Michio Kaku | ||
| b25eb7b | In my field, physics, I see that most of us are engage in physics not for the money but for the sheer joy of discovery an innovation. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 8978bdd | the dark lady who inspired Shakespeare's sonnets, the lady of Arosa may remain forever mysterious." (Unfortunately, because Schrodinger had so many girlfriends and lovers in his life, as well as illegitimate children, it is impossible to determine precisely who served as the muse for this historic equation.) Over the next several months, in a remarkable series of papers, Schrodinger showed that the mysterious rules found by Niels Bohr for t.. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 099de6c | Astronomers suspect that the Oort Cloud could extend as far as three light-years from our solar system. That is more than halfway to the nearest stars, the Centauri triple star system, which is slightly more than four light-years from Earth. If we assume that the Centauri star system is also surrounded by a sphere of comets, then there might be a continuous trail of comets connecting it to Earth. It may be possible to establish a series of .. | Michio Kaku | ||
| d0de640 | Each of the genes of the human body is spelled out explicitly in this dictionary, but what each does is still largely a mystery. | Michio Kaku | ||
| c17d4dc | For any reasonable value of Omega at the beginning of time, Einstein's equations show that it should almost be zero today. For Omega to be so close to 1 so many billions of years after the big bang would require a miracle. This is what is called in cosmology the finetuning problem. God, or some creator, had to "choose" the value of Omega to within fantastic accuracy for Omega to be about 0.1 today. For Omega to be between 0.1 and 10 today, .. | omega | Michio Kaku | |
| a5850f5 | Using MRI scans, scientists can now read thoughts circulating in our brains. Scientists can also insert a chip into the brain of a patient who is totally paralyzed and connect it to a computer, so that through thought alone that patient can surf the web, read and write e-mails, play video games, control their wheelchair, operate household appliances, and manipulate mechanical arms. In fact, such patients can do anything a normal person can .. | Michio Kaku | ||
| b5cbc2b | The string is extremely tiny, at the Planck length of 10 ^-33 cm, a billion billion times smaller than a proton, so all subatomic particles appear pointlike.) If we were to pluck this string, the vibration would change; the electron might turn into a neutrino. Pluck it again and it might turn into a quark. In fact, if you plucked it hard enough, it could turn into any of the known subatomic particles. Strings can interact by splitting and r.. | string-theory | Michio Kaku | |
| ef84539 | For the ten-dimensional universe, however, there are apparemtly millions of ways in which to curl up. To calculate which state the ten-dimensional universe prefers, we need to solve the field theory of strings using the theory of phase transitions, the most difficult problem in quantum theory. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 7fff1bb | The Fate of the Earth, points | Michio Kaku | ||
| e50f357 | Whether we like it or not, if we are to pursue a career in science, eventually we have to learn the "language of nature": mathematics. Without mathematics, we can only be passive observers to the dance of nature rather than active participants. As Einstein once said, "Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas." Let me offer an analogy. One may love French civilization and literature, but to truly understand the French min.. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 3c8026d | PREFACE Cosmology is the study of the universe as a whole, including its birth and perhaps its ultimate fate. Not surprisingly, it has undergone many transformations in its slow, painful evolution, an evolution often overshadowed by religious dogma and superstition. The first revolution in cosmology was ushered in by the introduction of the telescope in the 1600s. With the aid of the telescope, Galileo Galilei, building on the work of the g.. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 7b53a4a | Inflation is continuous and eternal, with big bangs happening all the time, with universes sprouting from other universes. In this picture, universes can "bud" off into other universes, creating a "multiverse." In this theory, spontaneous breaking may occur anywhere within our universe, allowing an entire universe to bud off our universe. It also means that our own universe might have budded from a previous universe. In the chaotic inflatio.. | multiverse omega parallel-universes universe | Michio Kaku | |
| da53ff1 | Scientists can also insert a chip into the brain of a patient who is totally paralyzed and connect it to a computer, so that through thought alone that patient can surf the web, read and write e-mails, play video games, control their wheelchair, operate household appliances, and manipulate mechanical arms. In fact, such patients can do anything a normal person can do via a computer. | Michio Kaku | ||
| d8fdfba | Claude Shannon, the father of information theory, once declared, "I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines." -- | Michio Kaku | ||
| 3c45c67 | Cosmology is the study of the universe as a whole, including its birth and perhaps its ultimate fate. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 72a8aca | In this book, therefore, I divide the things that are "impossible" into three categories. The first are what I call Class I impossibilities. These are technologies that are impossible today but that do not violate the known laws of physics. So they might be possible in this century, or perhaps the next, in modified form. They include teleportation, antimatter engines, certain forms of telepathy, psychokinesis, and invisibility. The second c.. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 33e45cc | Normally gravity would crush the throat of the wormhole, destroying the astronauts trying to reach the other side. That is one reason that faster-than-light travel through a wormhole is not possible. But the repulsive force of negative energy or negative mass could conceivably keep the throat open sufficiently long to allow astronauts a clear passage. In other words, negative mass or energy is essential for both the Alcubierre drive and the.. | Michio Kaku | ||
| a2c0898 | These parallel universes are not ghost worlds with an ephemeral existence; within each universe, we have the appearance of solid objects and concrete events as real and as objective as any. | Michio Kaku |