Quotes About Time

Well," I'd said finally, "I guess I have to invoke the Steelyard. In the absence of a good argument to the contrary, I have to choose the simplest answer. And the simplest answer is that time runs independently in Universe A and Universe B." "Because they are separate causal domains.

You could get used to anything. You got used to it and then time raced by, and before you knew it, time was up

no matter what efforts we put forth in our lives, all we're really doing is rearranging the sand-grains in a beach that in essence never changes.

There were, in other words, plenty of lovely things to discover at the time and to reminisce about later.

I don't think that teenagers are the way they are because of their age. It's because they have nothing to lose. They simultaneously have a lot of time on their hands and yet are very impatient to get on with their lives.

As with all gut feelings, only time will tell whether this it is pathetic self-delusion.

vast U-shaped valley that was ground out of the rock, a long time ago, by a big tongue of ice in an epochal period of geological cunnilingus.

period of geological cunnilingus.

They are probably now either archived or expunged. If I don't escape from 1851 within the next three weeks, I will never know which.

What the fuck do you want? Y.T., I'm sorry about this. But something's going on. Something big time. I'm keeping one eye on a big biker named Raven. The problem with you hackers is you never stop working. That's what a hacker is, Hiro says.

I'll set up a cron job to do it right now," Corvallis said. "Once an hour?" "I was thinking once a minute.

One sort of glib explanation I heard once was that Rhetors could change the past, and were glad to do it, but Incanters could change the future—and were reluctant.

Much later, humans might rouse themselves to take action and be agents once again. But now and for long into the future they would be nothing more than patients.

summary to me. I thought you couldn't summarize.

in the informal atmosphere of the Physics Department, appointments were viewed with a certain Heisenbergian skepticism, as though being in the right place at the right time would involve breaking a natural law and was therefore impossible to begin with.

He had abundant free time, which he spent working on a series of new theorems in the field of information theory.

a vast U-shaped valley that was ground out of the rock, a long time ago, by a big tongue of ice in an epochal period of geological cunnilingus.

Many set themselves the aim of rescuing the indifferent and the lazy—and end up lost themselves. The 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.

She had no time for woke Westerners who wanted to decolonize everything.

I swear, can't you guys tell time? Didn't happen anymore. Pizza delivery is a major industry. A managed industry. People went to CosaNostra Pizza University four years just to learn it. Came in its doors unable to write an English sentence, from Abkhazia, Rwanda, Guanajuato, South Jersey, and came out knowing more about pizza than a Bedouin knows about sand.

Oh, they used to argue over times, many corporate driver-years lost to it: homeowners, red-faced and sweaty with their own lies, stinking of Old Spice and job-related stress, standing in their glowing yellow doorways brandishing their Seikos and waving

If you spend your time trying to figure out what's "best" for you, your choices will be cautious, your decisions will take forever, and your journey will be launched on a sea of expectations. If you are not careful, you will drown in your expectations.

With you, it seems to be merely a question of time. The legality of self-destruction—the "rightness" or "wrongness" of it—seems to have much to do with how quickly the deed is done, as well as who is doing it. The faster the death, the more "wrong" it seems to be. The slower the death, the more it slips into "okayness.

A true understanding of time allows you to live much more peacefully within your reality of relativity, where time is experienced as a movement, a flow, rather than a constant. It is you who are moving, not time. Time has no movement. There is only One Moment. At