Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, … - Greg Bear

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I'm a real gangster rapper and I'm a rapper. I just think my music takes different directions. I don't think you can pigeon hole me in one genre. I'm probably the most versatile in the game, period.

Greg Bear

Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell don't understand everything.

Everything, Fusion, Hell, Plant, Power, Sometimes

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We may exist in all universes, but 'hear' only one because of our limitations, the valve of our desires, our practical, physical needs. All is vibration, with nothing vibrating across no distance whatsoever. All is music. A universe, a world, is just one long difficult song. The difference between worlds is the difference between songs.

Differences, Distance, Music, Song, World

There is nothing finer in the world than the telling of tales. Split atoms if you wish, but splitting an infinitive-and getting away with it-is far nobler. Lance boils if you wish, but pricking pretensions is often cleaner and always more fun.

Atoms, Away, Fun, Wish

To translate kinesics or paralinguistic messages into words is likely to introduce gross falsification due not merely to the human propensity for trying to falsify statements about "feelings" and relationship and to the distortions which arise whenever the products of one system of coding are dissected onto the premises of another, but especially to the fact that all such translation must give to the more or less unconscious and involuntary message the appearance of conscious intent.

Coding, Feelings, Giving, System, Translation, Trying

All things will be ambiguous, for this is the curse of wisdom.

All Things, Ambiguous, Curse, Things, Wisdom

Sometimes the problem outshines the pain.

Outshines, Pain, Problem, Sometimes