"All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected."

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Source : Rudy Rucker (1999). “Seek!: Selected Nonfiction”, p.92, Running Press

Rudy Rucker

#Gnarly Quotes #Might Quotes #Expected Quotes

“We read novels. We read hundreds of pages of words, when the story is good because we're willing to stay there. I hope the story is good. I'm going into this venture thinking that the audience is really smart and really wants to hear all the nuances of what we're saying.”
“The wisest men follow their own direction.”
“If you think about how healthcare is delivered, it's on an ad hoc basis. Someone comes into a hospital, someone comes into a pharmacy, someone comes into a doctor. But beyond those touchpoints, the patients are on their own. There's no real continuity of care.”
“Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.”
“Magic is something that seems like it goes against how the world works and its us magicians job to be doing that.”
“What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of the sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard.”
“This book fills a much-needed gap.”
“He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in a vapor drop and all creation yet to come.”

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