“The universe is made of stories, not atoms.”
—Muriel Rukeyser
“The most important part of the story is the part you don’t know yet.”
—Barbara Kingsolver to Kurt Andersen
The first quote, it transpires, is in my pile of things that I keep to remember. It is also how chapter one of the book I just started reading begins (The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil). The second quote, I passed on my way to finding the first quote; and is here because it seemed à propos.