Quotes About Time

It had been a hell of a long time since he had been reduced to hiding behind a tree, and he did not view it as much of a professional achievement.

Topology is destiny,' he said, and put the drawers on. One leg at a time.

people too busy leading their lives to worry about extending their life expectancy.

The cosmos seems oblivious to time. It only matters to us. Consciousness is time-constituting. We build time up out of instantaneous impressions that flow in through our sensory organs at each moment. Then they recede into the past. What is this thing we call the past? It is a system of records encoded in our nerve tissue—records that tell a consistent story.

Space and Time! Two minor omissions that no one is likely to notice, grumbled Newton.

Time, tide, and comets waited for no man.

He was forty-seven years old but in dim light could have passed for thirty.

But around the time Manila heaves into view, a warm breeze springs up over the deck and all of the Marines sigh, as if they have all ejaculated in unison.

it might be true in the future." "But the rest of our lives will happen in the future, Randy, so we might as well get with the program now.

I'm surprised at you! If it will take ten years to make the machine with available technology, and only five years to make it with a new technology, and it will only take two years to invent the new technology, then you can do it in seven years by inventing the new technology first!

Well, once I had recovered from childbirth - then she caught herself short, and smiled. What a ridiculous expression; I see now that I shall be recovering until the day I die.

you made a point of hanging out exclusively with people who had the wit to see and to understand that objective reality, you didn't have to waste a lot of time talking.

I had to ride my bike to and from their god damn plant way up north in the high-chemical crime district, and reachable only by riding on the shoulder of some major freeways. I could feel the years ticking off my life expectancy as the mile markers struggled by.

After about three billion years of this sometimes zany, frequently tedious fugue of carnality and carnage

flame within them gets dim with the passage of time. So, if you have the fire, run, since you never know when it may be doused, leaving you stranded in darkness. —John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent (Step

Orolo said, "What if these two universes—each as big and as old and as complicated as ours—were entirely separate, except for a single photon that managed to travel somehow between them. Would that be enough to wrench A's time and B's time into perfect lockstep for all eternity?

They were like three-year olds who shove pencils in their ears, discover that it hurts, and stop doing it. Lawrence's first year went by almost instantly. Time just blazed by. Nowhere could be sunnier, more relaxing, than Hawaii.

If Microsoft ever makes a software package that I use and like, then it really will be time to dump their stock, because I am a market segment of one.

The question is, how long does Mr. Spinny have to live? And what does that tell us?

Leibniz's most fundamental assumption, namely that the universe makes sense and that the human has the power to make sense of it and that, consequently, pure metaphysics is no waste of time, remains perhaps the central question of all science.

That was his youngest. Hadley, the girl in the middle, was in Berkeley; she'd been doing volunteer work for an organization in Oakland and had a lot of free time.

Rufus would have the boss's undivided attention for three hours, after which there would be something called a "hard stop.

But that was one of those errands that, if not achieved in the first twelve hours, would remain undone centuries later.

In movies, SF dominates utterly: by my count, 57 of the top 100 movies of all time, and nine of the top ten. The only top ten film that isn't SF is Titanic, made by a director who cut his teeth making SF films.