02-10-2023, 10:23 AM
ÔÇ£IÔÇÖm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. IÔÇÖve got this beautiful mind and itÔÇÖs going to die, and itÔÇÖll all be gone. And then I say, not in my case. Every idea IÔÇÖve ever had IÔÇÖve written down, and itÔÇÖs all there on paper. And I wonÔÇÖt be gone; itÔÇÖll be there. ÔÇ£
ÔÇ£If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldnÔÇÖt brood. IÔÇÖd type a little faster. ÔÇ£
ÔÇ£It is tempting to wonder if our present universe, large as it is and complex though it seems, might not be merely the result of a very slight random increase in order over a very small portion of an unbelievably colossal universe which is virtually entirely in heat-death. Perhaps we are merely sliding down a gentle ripple that has been set up, accidently and very temporarily, in a quiet pond, and it is only the limitation of our own infinitesimal range of viewpoint in space and time that makes it seem to ourselves that we are hurtling down a cosmic waterfall of increasing entropy, a waterfall of colossal size and duration. ÔÇ£
Isaac Asimov
ÔÇ£If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldnÔÇÖt brood. IÔÇÖd type a little faster. ÔÇ£
ÔÇ£It is tempting to wonder if our present universe, large as it is and complex though it seems, might not be merely the result of a very slight random increase in order over a very small portion of an unbelievably colossal universe which is virtually entirely in heat-death. Perhaps we are merely sliding down a gentle ripple that has been set up, accidently and very temporarily, in a quiet pond, and it is only the limitation of our own infinitesimal range of viewpoint in space and time that makes it seem to ourselves that we are hurtling down a cosmic waterfall of increasing entropy, a waterfall of colossal size and duration. ÔÇ£
Isaac Asimov
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)