Flatland Quotes

#1. STUDYING TIME MACHINES IN FLATLAND

Sean Carroll

#2. Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams of our ancestors a century ago and obtain direct visual experience of phenomena in a dimension higher than our own.

Thomas Banchoff

#3. She padded toward Han, barefoot, like a faerie startled out of a forest bower, bewitching mix of clan and flatland beauty.

Cinda Williams Chima

#4. The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensiona l;
the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent
the rich visual world of experience and
measurement on mere flatland?

Edward Tufte

#5. I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.

Edwin A. Abbott

#6. The slicing technique from Flatland still remains one of the most powerful tools for dealing with aggregates in higher dimensions.

Thomas Banchoff

#7. PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation.

Edward R. Tufte

#8. Immerse yourself in the mesmerising patchwork of flatland invaded by water, desolate roads of industrial obsolescence, and a dark history

Ben Handicott

#9. For Christmas, 1939, a girl friend gave me a book token which I used to buy Linus Pauling's recently published Nature of the Chemical Bond. His book transformed the chemical flatland of my earlier textbooks into a world of three-dimensional structures.

Max Perutz

#10. Yet at least we can admire the wise Prearrangement which has ordained that, as they have no hopes, so they shall have no memory to recall, and no forethought to anticipate, the miseries and humiliations which are at once a necessity of their existence and the basis of the constitution of Flatland.

Edwin A. Abbott

#11. It's a neighborhood where every dad has at least one job and where parents often end conversations with the words: no guts, no glory.

Michael Jay

#12. You are not a man, but a feminine monstrosity with a bass voice!

Edwin A. Abbott

#13. I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.

Derek Walcott

#14. If God created humans with the ability to dictate the direction of history (by imagining future states of the universe and steering its path toward one version or another), then humanity's duty to God was to direct history toward the best of all possible worlds.

Dexter Palmer

#15. Forgiveness is the noblest and highest thing above all

Ashwini Gopalkrishnan

#16. I have a fantastic team, and it's much easier having children, because that creates a natural limit.

Phoebe Philo

#17. One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different lives.

Gillian Cross

#18. When all else fails, complicate matters.

Aaron Allston

#19. Little Joe was still behind him. Eli could feel it. He wanted to look back, but he couldn't. The tears were too close. If he were Fancy, he'd turn around and kick and buck and moo and do just about anything to keep his calf near. But Eli wasn't Fancy; he was a farmer.

Sandra Neil Wallace

#20. Anyone can pluck a flower ... true strength is knowing how to give it life.

Aprilynne Pike

#21. I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown.

Nelly Furtado