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The ultimate singularity is the Big Bang, which physicists believe was responsible for the birth of the universe. We are asked by science to believe that the entire universe sprang from nothingness, at a single point and for no discernible reason. This notion is the limit case for credulity. In other words, if you can believe this, you can believe anything. It is a notion that is, in fact, utterly absurd, yet terribly important. Those so-called rational assumptions flow from this initial impossible situation. Western religion has its own singularity in the form of the apocalypse, an event placed not at the beginning of the universe but at its end. This seems a more logical position than that of science. If singularities exist at all it seems easier to suppose that they might arise out of an ancient and highly complexified cosmos, such as our own, than out of a featureless and dimensionless mega-void.

Terence McKenna

What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.

WILLIAM COWPER. 1731-1800.     _Walking with God._

Nihil a Deo vacat; opus suum ipse implet=--Nothing is void of God; His work everywhere is full of Himself.

Seneca.

This desire, and this weakness cry aloud to us that there was once in man a true happiness, of which there now remains to him but the mark and the empty trace, which he vainly tries to fill from all that surrounds him, seeking from things absent the succour he finds not in things present; and these are all inadequate, because this infinite void can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object, that is to say, only by God himself.

Blaise Pascal     The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

With wide-embracing love Thy Spirit animates eternal years, Pervades and broods above, Changes, sustains, dissolves, creates, and rears. Though earth and moon were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee. There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou —THOU art Being and Breath, And what THOU art may never be destroyed.

Emily Brontë

The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.

LORD BYRON 1788-1824.     _The Giaour. Line 957._

There was once, in a remote part of the East, a man who was altogether void of knowledge and experience, yet presumed to call himself a physician.

PILPAY (OR BIDPAI.)     _The Ignorant Physician. Fable viii._

The harmony of soul and body - how much that is! We in our madness have separated the two, and have invented a realism that is vulgar, an ideality that is void.

Oscar Wilde

I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.

John Green

The good that passes by without returning, leaves behind it an impression that may be compared to a void, and is felt like a want.

_Goethe._

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS. 121-180 A. D.     _Meditations. iv. 50._

_Contraries._ _After having shown the vileness and the greatness of man._--Let man now estimate his value. Let him love himself, because he has a nature capable of good, but let him not therefore love the vileness which exists in that nature. Let him despise himself, because this capacity is void, but let him not therefore despise his natural capacity. Let him hate himself, let him love himself: he has in himself the power of knowing the truth and being happy, and yet has found no truth either permanent or satisfactory.

Blaise Pascal     The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

How can that gift leave a trace which has left no void?--_Madame Swetchine._

Maturin M. Ballou     Pearls of Thought

Past the bouncers outside and the girls smoking long, skinny cigarettes, past the tinted glass doors and the jade stone Novikov has put in near the entrance for good luck. Inside, Novikov opens up so anyone can see everyone in almost every corner at any moment, the same theatrical seating as in his Moscow places. But the London Novikov is so much bigger. There are three floors. One floor is “Asian,” all black walls and plates. Another floor is “Italian,” with off-white tiled floors and trees and classic paintings. Downstairs is the bar-cum-club, in the style of a library in an English country house, with wooden bookshelves and rows of hardcover books. It’s a Moscow Novikov restaurant cubed: a series of quotes, of references wrapped in a tinted window void, shorn of their original memories and meanings (but so much colder and more distant than the accessible, colorful pastiche of somewhere like Las Vegas). This had always been the style and mood in the “elite,” “VIP” places in Moscow, all along the Rublevka and in the Garden Ring, where the just-made rich exist in a great void where they can buy anything, but nothing means anything because all the old orders of meaning are gone. Here objects become unconnected to any binding force. Old Masters and English boarding schools and Fabergé eggs all floating, suspended in a culture of zero gravity.

Peter Pomerantsev

The steps of faith fall on the seeming void, and find the rock beneath.

_Whittier._

There is a conspicuous void in the arguments and the programs of the counter-culture groups of this country, in that they have produced no well-formulated economic theories…. Unfortunately and ironically, Lou Kelso, who has some very imaginative economic proposals, has been offering them for many years to the establishment, the dinosaur culture….”Two-Factor” economics or “universal capitalism” recognizes the emerging importance of technology, and accepts the diminishing necessity of human labor; it is an economic theory that is beautifully tailored to the values and beliefs of most Catalog readers and those seeking alternatives to dinosaur existence…. These proposals have been laid on presidential candidates, congressmen, newspaper publishers, leading economists, and nearly all key decision makers of the establishment over and over again…. My advice to Lou is: “Come on, Lou, grow long hair, drop all that establishment costumery, immerse yourself in the now generation, and start to work with a constituency that wants you and needs you. [ The Whole Earth Catalog , Spring 1970.]

Raymond, Richard.

Who has not come to the conclusion that he is but a part, a fraction of some larger whole? Who does not miss at every turn of his life an absent God? That man is but a part, he knows, for there is room in him for more. That God is the other part, he feels, because at times He satisfies his need. Who does not tremble often under that sicklier symptom of his incompleteness, his want of spiritual energy, his helplessness with sin? But now he understands both--the void in his life, the powerlessness of his will. He understands that, like all other energy, spiritual power is contained in Environment. He finds here at last the true root of all human frailty, emptiness, nothingness, sin. This is why "without Me ye can do nothing." Powerless is the normal state not only of this but of every organism--of every organism apart from its Environment. Natural Law, p. 268.

Henry Drummond     Beautiful Thoughts

The whole nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.[389-3]

HORACE WALPOLE. 1717-1797.     _Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1778._

Omnes homines, qui de rebus dubiis consultant, ab odio, amicitia, ira, atque misericordia vacuos esse decet=--All men, who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

Sallust.

Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.

JOHN MILTON. 1608-1674.     _Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 96._

O curv? in terris anim? et c?lestium inanes!=--Oh ye souls bent down to earth and void of everything heavenly.

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O quantum in rebus inane!=--Oh, what a void there is in things!

_Persius._

I have always been interested in the way that elements of stories twine and combine. At school I had an art teacher, a great influence on me, who disliked man-made objects unless they were old and showed the effects of time and wear; she loved all natural things. I share this attitude and it plays a large part in my writing. I'm fascinated by the ambiguity of man's relationship to the huge, mysterious universe around him; how, on the one hand, we make ourselves little boxes and think to exist safely and snugly in them; on the other, we extend our knowledge further and further into the limitless void; and yet from time to time these opposites collide and produce astonishing results.

Joan Aiken

Man cannot be exempted from his divinely-imposed obligations toward civil society, and the representatives of authority have the right to coerce him when he refuses without reason to do his duty. Society, on the other hand, cannot defraud man of his God-granted right… Nor can society systematically void these rights by making their use impossible. [ Divini Redemptoris, Op. cit. , §30, 1937.]

Pius XI.

This house is to be let for life or years; Her rent is sorrow, and her income tears. Cupid, 't has long stood void; her bills make known, She must be dearly let, or let alone.

FRANCIS QUARLES. 1592-1644.     _Emblems. Book ii. Emblem 10, Ep. 10._

If A = B and B = C, then A = C, except where void or prohibited by law.

Roy Santoro

However good lectures may be, and however extensive the course of reading-by which they are followed up, they are but accessories to the great instrument of scientific teaching--demonstration. If I insist unweariedly, nay fanatically, upon the importance of physical science as an educational agent, it is because the study of any branch of science, if properly conducted, appears to me to fill up a void left by all other means of education. I have the greatest respect and love for literature; nothing would grieve me more than to see literary training other than a very prominent branch of education: indeed, I wish that real literary discipline were far more attended to than it is; but I cannot shut my eyes to the fact that there is a vast difference between men who have had a purely literary, and those who have had a sound scientific, training.

T. H. Huxley     Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley

He's like a function -- he returns a value, in the form of his opinion.

It's up to you to cast it into a void or not.

I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies, of the suns and the stars and the void through which they travel. The essence of nature, eternal, divine that all men seek to know to hear, known as the great illusion time, and the all-prevailing atmosphere. And now you know my background.

eden ahbez

Hence it comes that almost all philosophers have confounded different ideas, and speak of material things in spiritual phrase, and of spiritual things in material phrase. For they say boldly that bodies have a tendency to fall, that they seek after their centre, that they fly from destruction, that they fear a void, that they have inclinations, sympathies, antipathies; and all of these are spiritual qualities. Again, in speaking of spirits, they conceive of them as in a given spot, or as moving from place to place; qualities which belong to matter alone.

Blaise Pascal     The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

Who has not come to the conclusion that he is but a part, a fraction of some larger whole? Who does not miss, at every turn of his life, an absent God? That man is but a part, he knows, for there is room in him for more. That God is the other part, he feels, because at times He satisfies his need. Who does not tremble often under that sicklier symptom of his incompleteness, his want of spiritual energy, his helplessness with sin? But now he understands both--the void in his life, the powerlessness of his will. He understands that, like all other energy, Spiritual power is contained in Environment. He finds here at last the true root of all human frailty, emptiness, nothingness, sin. This is why "without Me ye can do nothing." Powerlessness is the normal state, not only of this, but of every organism--of every organism apart from its Environment. Natural Law, p. 268.

Henry Drummond     Beautiful Thoughts

Oh, the gallant fisher's life! It is the best of any; 'T is full of pleasure, void of strife, And 't is beloved by many.

IZAAK WALTON. 1593-1683.     _The Angler._ (John Chalkhill.)

Love is enough: though the World be a-waning And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining, Though the sky be too dark for dim eyes to discover The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder, Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder, And this day draw a veil over all deeds passed over, Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter; The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.

William Morris

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<Z-Gryphon> If Unicron had a tech spec card, his motto would be "That

            which does not become part of the One shall become Void."

<Z-Gryphon> which is sort of a grand-scale, apocalyptic version of "I

            am what I eat." :)

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Stopping Apache webserver...sleeping...starting again...apache: dl-version.c:189:

 _dl_check_map_versions: Assertion `needed != ((void *)0)' failed

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        -- netgod on #Debian at LISC

Fortune Cookie

    Price Wang's programmer was coding software.  His fingers danced upon

the keyboard.  The program compiled without an error message, and the program

ran like a gentle wind.

    Excellent!" the Price exclaimed, "Your technique is faultless!"

    "Technique?" said the programmer, turning from his terminal, "What I

follow is the Tao -- beyond all technique.  When I first began to program I

would see before me the whole program in one mass.  After three years I no

longer saw this mass.  Instead, I used subroutines.  But now I see nothing.

My whole being exists in a formless void.  My senses are idle.  My spirit,

free to work without a plan, follows its own instinct.  In short, my program

writes itself.  True, sometimes there are difficult problems.  I see them

coming, I slow down, I watch silently.  Then I change a single line of code

and the difficulties vanish like puffs of idle smoke.  I then compile the

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        -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"

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And as we stand on the edge of darkness

Let our chant fill the void</p>

That others may know

    In the land of the night

    The ship of the sun

    Is drawn by

    The grateful dead.

        -- Tibetan "Book of the Dead," ca. 4000 BC.

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According to convention there is a sweet and a bitter, a hot and a cold,

and according to convention, there is an order.  In truth, there are atoms

and a void.

        -- Democritus, 400 B.C.

Fortune Cookie

    A doctor, an architect, and a computer scientist were arguing about

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Fortune Cookie

He's like a function -- he returns a value, in the form of his opinion.

It's up to you to cast it into a void or not.

        -- Phil Lapsley

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Fortune Cookie

If A = B and B = C, then A = C, except where void or prohibited by law.

        -- Roy Santoro

Fortune Cookie

The Tao is like a glob pattern:

used but never used up.

It is like the extern void:

filled with infinite possibilities.

It is masked but always present.

I don't know who built to it.

It came before the first kernel.

Fortune Cookie

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    Something mysterious is formed, born in the silent void.  Waiting

alone and unmoving, it is at once still and yet in constant motion.  It is

the source of all programs.  I do not know its name, so I will call it the

Tao of Programming.

    If the Tao is great, then the operating system is great.  If the

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harmony in the world.

    The Tao of Programming flows far away and returns on the wind of

morning.

        -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"

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My apologies if I sound angry.  I feel like I'm talking to a void.

        -- Avery Pennarun

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She died calmly, and her countenance expressed affection even in death. I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil, the void that presents itself to the soul, and the despair that is exhibited on the countenance. It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw every day and whose very existence appeared a part of our own can have departed forever--that the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear can be hushed, never more to be heard. These are the reflections of the first days; but when the lapse of time proves the reality of the evil, then the actual bitterness of grief commences. Yet from whom has not that rude hand rent away some dear connection? And why should I describe a sorrow which all have felt, and must feel? The time at length arrives when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity; and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed a sacrilege, is not banished. My mother was dead, but we had still duties which we ought to perform; we must continue our course with the rest and learn to think ourselves fortunate whilst one remains whom the spoiler has not seized.

Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley     Frankenstein

3:13. And not as Moses put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel might not steadfastly look on the face of that which is made void.

THE SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS     NEW TESTAMENT

14:45. And whosoever shall do otherwise, or shall make void any of these things, shall be punished.

THE FIRST BOOK OF MACHABEES     OLD TESTAMENT

34:1. The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools.

THE PROLOGUE.     OLD TESTAMENT

Marius, inwardly, and in the depths of his thought, surrounded with all sorts of mute questions this M. Fauchelevent, who was to him simply benevolent and cold. There were moments when doubts as to his own recollections occurred to him. There was a void in his memory, a black spot, an abyss excavated by four months of agony.--Many things had been lost therein. He had come to the point of asking himself whether it were really a fact that he had seen M. Fauchelevent, so serious and so calm a man, in the barricade.

Victor Hugo     Les Miserables

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