"How did you . . . pass the time?â€™ Sunday asked. â€˜You couldnâ€™t just ching out of it, could you?â€™ â€˜We had a different form of chinging,â€™ Eunice said. â€˜An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it â€œreadingâ€."

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Source : Alastair Reynolds (2012). “Blue Remembered Earth”, p.187, Hachette UK

Alastair Reynolds

#Reading Quotes #Sunday Quotes #Technology Quotes

“Never stop being YOU. I am out to be the best ME I can be. Do what you LOVE and you will be badass.”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. August 28, 2012.
“You can never get enough of what you don't want.”
“There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.”
“I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.”

Source : "Sarah Gadon Is New Class' 'Most Likely To Wear A Corset'". Interview with Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. September 30, 2011.
“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”

Source : "Arithmetic, Population and Energy". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2002.
“If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement.”
“The human body is river of intelligence, energy and information that is constantly renewing itself in every second of its existence.”
“When you find great songs, and somehow you get a spark in a little way, it can become brand new.”

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