"In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of thecat, although in this case there were three determinate states the catcould be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious."
- Terry Pratchett
"It’s not an academic question any more to ask what’s going to happen to a cloud. People very much want to know—and that means there’s money available for it. That problem is very much within the realm..."
- James Gleick
"Postmodern science - by concerning itself with such things as undecidables, the limits of precise control, conflicts characterized by incomplete information, "fracta", catastrophes, and pragmatic para..."
- Jean-François Lyotard
"Government succeeds by failing."
- L.K. Samuels
"The fakirs always throng the sea-shoreTo find meaning in the chaosAnd then they too become melancholyFeeling nothing but their naked toes."
- Avijeet Das
"If God were mortal and had but one life to give, he would have been more careful about how he created the world."
- A.E. Samaan
"If patterns of ones and zeroes were "like" patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long strings of ones and zeroes, then wh..."
- Thomas Pynchon
"The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects"
- Johnny Rich
"There (is) order and even great beauty in what looks like total chaos. If we look closely enough at the randomness around us, patterns will start to emerge."
- Aaron Sorkin
"Government in and of itself is the foremost agent for destroying order and imposing chaos.""To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war.""Political theory would be fine i..."