Hierbas Provenzales Quotes & Sayings

The primary consequence of the computational nature of the universe is that the universe naturally generates complex systems, such as life. Although the basic laws of physics are comparatively simple in form, they give rise, because they are computationally universal, to systems of enormous complexity. — Seth Lloyd

By fetishizing youth and virginity, we're supporting a disturbing message: that really sexy women aren't women at all- they're girls. — Jessica Valenti

[L]ife, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure. It is, in the strict sense of the word, drama ... [T]he primary, radical meaning of life appears when it is employed in the sense not of biology, but of biography. For the very strong reason that the whole of biology is quite definitely only a chapter in certain biographies, it is what biologists do in the portion of their lives open to biography. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters. — Russell B. Long

my curse is that i fall in love with
men who believe in gods but not in me. — Salma Deera