You always know economists are in deep shit when they start talking about trust and value. Usually when you say fundamentals to them they’re like interest rates and price of gold.
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...
Why don’t you like it when you can’t say why?
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?People said things like, Fuck it, or Fuck the future. T...
Well, Amelia said, basically my polar bears have taken over my airship.
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...
We are making a better way to live. This was the myth, they had all grown up with it.
To hope without hope, which would be wise, is impossible. —MARCEL PROUST, Les Plaisirs et les Jours
This is what the human story is, not the emperors and the generals and their wars, but the nameless actions of people who are never written down, the good they do for others passed on like a blessing,...
There’s no new world, my friend, no New seas, no other planets, nowhere to flee— You’re tied in a knot you can never undo When you realize Earth is a starship too. Ahh,
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 rounded slopes, Phyllis said, indicated ancient water as clearly as the grain in petrified wood indicated the original tree. By the way she spoke Nadia understood that this was another of her disa...
The outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab. said Fran Lebowitz
The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims b. They make arguments to support their claims with any number of points. But when their l...
The one percent get nasty when their assets are threatened.
The intense desire to talk with someone, sharp as any pain; this was what people meant when they talked about love. Or rather; this was what Sax would acknowledge to be love. Just the super-heightened...
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...