Permutation City

Who wanted to spend an afternoon with great-grandfather, when it burned up half a week of your life? (Location 239)

She could stand there admiring the artistry of the illusion for as long as she liked, but nothing could bring back the surge of elation she’d felt when she’d been deceived. She turned away. (Location 316)

A Copy possessed no individual atoms or molecules; every organ in its virtual body came in the guise of specialized sub-programs which knew (in encyclopedic, but not atomic, detail) how a real liver or brain or thyroid gland functioned … but which couldn’t have solved Schrödinger’s equation for so much as a single protein molecule. All physiology, no physics. (Location 469)