#favorite (3 quotes)
I sometimes think of my journey through adulthood to date as one of incrementally discovering the truth that there is no institution, no walk of life, in which everyone isn’t just winging it, all the time.
— , Four Thousand Weeks Most of the brain’s work is done while the brain’s owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to deliberately find something else to think and talk about.
— , Cryptonomicon This was the future, she thought. This was what it felt like to be alive in a time of miracles and wonders. And she had the nerve to feel tired?
— , The Revelation Space eBook Collection