Sundar Pichai Quotes

In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is that it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, time travel's a nightmare. Don't go down that path.

In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.

Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way.

The one thing humans can't control is time, but what if one has the power to do so is the core theme of '24.'

I'm unstuck in time. Also, I juggle like mad and have made myself efficient.

She'd have to propel herself into the future by whatever means possible or she'd be trapped forever in a place whose times had already passed.

When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?

People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed to be much more astute than the people there, when the truth is of course you wouldn't.

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.

'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.

Originally, the burden of proof was on physicists to prove that time travel was possible. Now the burden of proof is on physicists to prove there must be a law forbidding time travel.

Not only is the past of a person with no memory inaccessible; his ability to think about the future is imperilled. Time travel, then, is ultimately - and paradoxically - an exercise in remembering. And without that capacity it simply cannot exist.

No matter how rich you are, you cannot transport yourself to the future or the past.

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.

Slow motion gets you there faster.

I spent a week there one afternoon.

But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don't have to wait for anybody.

Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity. We are several decades away from a definitive understanding, 20 or 30 years, but it could be sooner than that.

If time travel were possible, you still wouldn't be able to change the past - it's already happened!

In a great many stories that deal with time travel, there's usually somebody who knows how time travel works. They lay out the rules.

If you're going to write time travel stories, you have to sort of figure out how does time travel work in this particular universe that I'm dealing with.

The show is '12 Monkeys,' and I'm playing the role that Bruce Willis played in the original film '12 Monkeys.' It is a show about time travel. My character is from a future post-apocalypse, and he has been given a mission to go back in time to essentially set things right and stop the apocalypse. No big deal.

Once the notion of time travel starts to come naturally to the human mind, it is supremely easy to assimilate it into our mode of thinking.

I'm always game for movies based on time travel. Hopefully, someday, I'll be a part of a time travel series of films.