7 Quotes by STEPHANE AUDEGUY

What we call 'time' isn't chronological but spatial; what we call 'death' is merely a transition between different kinds of matter.

Of all the world's civilizations, America was the one that most needed losers.

One dead body required two men either to bury it or to transport it to the rear. A wounded soldier, on the other hand, immobilized five men for an indeterminate amount of time; and who knew whether it was even worth the effort.

There is something almost insane about countries without common borders going to war, something unnatural.

Même il pense parfois, mais sans le dire à personne, que le cerveau des hommes a la forme des nuages, et qu'ainsi les nuages sont comme le siège de la pensée du ciel; ou alors, que le cerveau est ce nuage dans l'homme qui le rattache au ciel.

The law of computers is the same as the law of the marketplace. The earth's atmosphere was divided up into a network of cubes, each reducible to a collection of points, and each point the product of a set of calculations. As far as science was concerned, this was the end of clouds, which were but a series of coordinates simulated in a space of greater than three dimensions.

Tout pourrait être beaucoup plus simple. Tout pourrait être beaucoup plus simple, mais rares sont les êtres qui savent s'élever à la hauteur d'une telle simplicité.