No one else can live your life for you.
It looked like the centuries-long wrestling match between state and capital had ended in a decisive victory for capital. Possibly
History never ends, and good is accomplished against the immense black-hole gravity of greed and fear.
Because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own. We rise out of the cosmos and we see its mesh of patterns, and it strikes us as beautiful. And...
A postcarbon landscape, each
You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one fucking idiot.
With practice one could dodge the past almost entirely.
Why? Yes, why? I mean there’s two kinds of activities here, there’s the exploration of Mars and then there’s the life support for that exploration. And here you’ve been completely immersed in the life...
Why read on? Why pick up their book from the far wall where it has been thrown away in disgust and pain, and read on? Why submit to such cruelty, such bad karma, such bad plotting?The reason is simple...
When you look at the planet from low orbit, the impact of the Himalayas on Earth’s climate seems obvious. It creates the rain shadow to beat all rain shadows, standing athwart the latitude of the trad...
When you discover that you are living in a fantasy that cannot endure, a fantasy that will destroy your world, and your children, what do you do?
When memory fails to contain us we must love the past more than ever, to hold it to us—or else the present becomes a meaningless blaze of color and sound, in which no two humans, great elongate beings...
We cannot trifle with this reality, this cropping-out in our planted gardens of the core of the world. No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man’s power is h...
Thus it went as she made her way around the biomes of Ring B. Always she found that her mother the great engineer had made some crucial intervention, finding solutions to problems that had stymied the...
This is why tigers have ranges of hundreds of square kilometers, Vlad said. Robber barons are not really very efficient.
Things are sold for less than it costs to make them. ... lots of business do go bankrupt. The ones that don't haven't actually sold their thing for more than it costs to make. They've just ignored som...
Then comes September and the sun tilts to the south. Yes, autumn in New York: the great song of the city and the great season. Not just for the relief from the brutal extremes of winter or summer, but...
The world is like a tree, from every leaf you can work back to the roots.
The formula proposed, as I told you, is energy equals the mass times the speed of light squared, and light is very fast indeed. So that with only a little matter, if any of its energy were released in...
The command to be free is a double bind