Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.
This document describes progress to date in establishing a defensive network capable of repelling wide-scale incursions by reconfiguring the national closed-circuit television surveillance network as...
They’re nuts. Completely insane! I don’t get this gambling thing. Didn’t these people study statistics at university?
They’ll like it even less if I hear any words from them, I said. You have to be firm with colonial troops: they have only as much backbone as their commanding officer.
There’s a fire on the hillside just above Skyland and it’s like to go wild if we
There are races that do not enslave, do not slay, do not war. There are races which do not lie or falsify. You think them weak? But they are among the strongest and finest denizens of the Will. They w...
The informational density of the inner planets is visibly converging on Avogadro’s number of bits per mole, one bit per atom,
Sorry, I should have warned you. Apologies are the keystone of an enduring relationship. Failing to apologize for mistakes, or getting onto a treadmill of belittling insults, is a bad warning sign. So...
Shut up. Stand up. Put this on. That’s right . . . if you were the kind of man who found it easy to do that kind of thing do you think I’d bother with you? Her question takes him by surprise, rattling...
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of th...
Our first priority is the same as it ever was, he said: survival. Not all of us, or any of us in particular, or forever, but survival is the principal goal. It’s the function of all life forms to pers...
Oh yes, and compulsory ferret-legging down the pub on Tuesday evenings, for the tourist trade tha’ knows. Ferret-legging? Rachel looked at him incredulously. Yup. You tie your kilt up around your knee...
Not that she’s happy with Bob. Iris still hasn’t forgiven him for unintentionally massacring most of her congregation, cocking up a very important summoning which might have shaved four years off the...
Not everyone is concerned with the deep future, Manfred interrupts. It’s important! If we live or die, that doesn’t matter—that’s not the big picture. The big question is whether information originati...
Non-euclidian sofa
My computer terminal whistles at me: YOU HAVE MAIL. No shit, Sherlock, I always have mail. It's an existential thing: if I don't have mail it would mean that something is very wrong with the world
MONDAY DAWNS BRIGHT AND HOT AND EARLY, AND I FIND MY SELF waking to the happy knowledge that I can go back to work, and nobody will order me home.
Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C+...
Like I said: the only god I believe in is coming back. And when he arrives, I’ll be waiting with a shotgun.
Jest upalny letni wtorek. Stoi na placu przed dworcem Centraal, ma włączone gałki oczne. Kanał skrzy się słońcem, wokół śmigają skutery i rowerzyści-kamikadze, ze wszystkich stron trajkocą turyści. Pl...