Rama II

каждая минута жизни бесценна, бесценна и изумительна… Нет чуда во всем мироздании превыше, чем просто осознавать себя.

„Просто позор, — решила она, — что мы, люди, никогда не в состоянии тянуть в одну и ту же сторону. Даже перед лицом бесконечности“.

“It is really frightening,” Richard interrupted enthusiastically. “And thrilling at the same time... Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or a library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the boob, one by one. Imagine what it would be like to be in the true library, one that combined the knowledge of all the species in the universe... The very thought makes me woozy.”

But dying in an exciting situation is much better than living in a boring one.

All bureaucracies are the same. They drain the life out of the truly creative people and develop mindless paper-pushers as their critical mass.

It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction, Nicole said to herself. Not even when confronted by infinity.

The truth always eludes those who search for it.

There are a bunch of my readers out there who find all this technical crap absolutely fascinating.