#hum

If my nightmare is a culture inhabited by posthumans who regard their bodies as fashion accessories rather than the ground of being, my dream is a version of the posthuman that embraces the possibilities of information technologies without being seduced by fantasies of unlimited power and disembodied immortality, that recognizes and celebrates finitude as a condition of human being, and that understands human life is embedded in a material world of great complexity, one on which we depend for our continued survival. ↗

— N. Katherine Hayles

#science #theory #dreams

When a boy's first romantic interlude is with Phoebe the Dog-Faced Girl, he feels a need to get out into the world and find a new life. ↗

— Annette Curtis Klause

#life

Weel, ma´am' said Stephen, making the best of it, with a smile; 'when I ha´finished off, I mun quit this part, and try another. Fortnet or misfortnet, a man can but try; there´s now to be done wi´out tryin -cept laying down and dying. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#life #perseverance #life

Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#hopes #humiliation #life #nature #perspective

Random Acts of Kindness," he said. "You need some in your life. Everybody does." "No, I don't have much of a rak, but hey, this is the twenty-third century, you can get anything fixed if you have enough money. ↗

— Peter F. Hamilton

#life

She hated using airplane toilets. She was always afraid the plane would choose the exact moment she was most defenseless to crash, and she'd spend her final seconds of life spiraling toward earth with her bottom bare to the world. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#phoebe #life

We're all guilty of saying insincere things at one point or another, if only just to make the moment not totally suck as much as it truly does. ↗

— Jen Naumann

#paranormal #zombies #life

What thought or message would you put into a fortune cookie? Get up, stop reading this and live your life ↗

— Ranna

#life

The views of the Courts in regard to imprisonment have however undergone modification in the last ten years. Imprisonment is seen more and more as a harsh and drastic punishment to be reserved for callous and impenitent characters. We wish to adopt a more enlightened approach in which the probable effect of incarceration upon the life of the accused person and those near to her is carefully weighed. ↗

— V.G. Hiemstra

#imprisonment #law #south-africa #south-african-law #life

Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds. ↗

— Mary Roach

#science #life