"When you read a book, the story definitely happens inside your head. When you listen, it seems to happen in a little cloud all around it, like a fuzzy knit cap pulled down over your eyes." - Robin Sloan 9 free audio tales by Adam Train are available for your...
"Nanotechnology is manufacturing with atoms." - William Powell"Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today." - Ralph MerkleThese free ebooks...
"You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get." - Haruki Murakami"Cancer gave me an understanding of the point of all this. To survive. Most of our lives it is easy but for the moments when it becomes difficult, when accident or sickness or sadness...
"Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory." - Ed Viesturs"It's a wonderful feeling to push even a tiny piece of the planet down beneath one's feet. If it's overhanging plastic, it's going to pump your arms like bloated sausages; if it's a steep...
"When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others." - Peace Pilgrim"Although yoga has its origins in ancient India, its methods and purposes are universal, relying not on cultural background, faith or deity, but...
"It's still magic even if you know how it's done." - Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky"Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is...
"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales." - Albert Einstein"Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world in...
"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage." - Seneca "Survivors aren't always the strongest; sometimes they're the smartest, but more often simply the luckiest." - Carrie Ryan, The Dark and Hollow Places. Anyone can suddenly be thrust into an emergency situation or...
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." - Edsger W. Dijkstra"To be human is to be 'a' human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial...