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Edward Fredkin quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them - no matter that, to the same degree, the choice can only matter less.”
-- Edward Fredkin

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“Digital mechanics predicts that for every continuous symmetry of physics there will be some microscopic process that violates that symmetry.”
-- Edward Fredkin

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“Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.”
“There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.”
“On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.”
“Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.”
“I can't do this Ash. It's killing me. Having you this close and not touching you is driving me insane. You're his Ash. You're his. You made your choice and I understand why you chose him. I don't hold it against you but dammit Ash it hurts”
“It represents a place women go and are left confused because they do not hear the truth about abortion and their choices. They are in a sense abused by the medical procedures that are performed without quality medical instructions/information. It's a tragic place.”
“We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.”
“Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.”

Source : "Music To Your Ears" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2013.
“I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.”

Source : "Spy novelist Alan Furst: 'I love the gray areas'" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 4, 2001.
“Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.”

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