“Our society desperately needs generalists who traverse several fields and then bring together ideas in ways that specialists may be unable to do, but we seem to be learning more and more about less and less until we know everything about nothing.”
– Clifford Pickover, A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality
“Stop reading for a moment and ponder this: Do you feel that you are wasting your life? Why?”
– Clifford Pickover, A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality
“Let’s agree to meet a thousand years from now and have a party.”
– Clifford Pickover, A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality
“A prism in the dark is just a hunk of glass.”
– James Platt, personal communication, in Clifford Pickover’s A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality
“According to the legend, when humans were first created from mud, the resulting creatures could not see and dissolved if caught in the rain.”
– Clifford Pickover, A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality