Experience has taught me that it is best never knowingly to underestimate the lethality of a sufficiently determined butler.
You can collar criminals until the cows come home, and there’ll still be a never-ending supply of greedy fuckwits and chancers.
Who knows? It’s a long shot, but it just might work.
We fight on so that something that remembers being human might survive.
We are, after all, .
They’re nuts. Completely insane! I don’t get this gambling thing. Didn’t these people study statistics at university? Evidently not
There’s a very loud noise in my ear, not unlike a cat sneezing, if the cat is the size of the Great Sphinx of Giza and it’s just inhaled three tons of snuff.
There's always some idiot who thinks that after the revolution they'll be the one sitting on top of the hill of corpses, dining on caviar served out of a bowl made of a chromed baby's skull.
There are two types of people in this world, Pete volunteers helpfully, those who think there are only two types of people in the world, and everybody else.
There are things out there in the night where light cannot exist that make Cthulhu look like a Care Bear.
Then the screen comes on, showing a familiar menu on a blue background and I stare at it, transfixed, like a yokel who’s never seen a television before. Because it’s not a TV. It’s a flat-screen PC ru...
Then the red light comes on above the camera, and I’m live on a Monday evening special crisis edition of Newsnight.
The first law of Bureaucracy is, show no curiosity outside your cubicle. It’s like the first rule of every army that’s ever bashed a square: never volunteer.If you ask questions (or volunteer) it will...
Sometimes I think death is even more inevitable than taxes, his grandmother replies bleakly. Humans don’t live in a vacuum; we’re part of a larger pattern of life.
So you open your mouth and listen to yourself say, I want eight thousand a day. Plus expenses.This is the polite, industry-standard way of saying piss off, I’m not interested. You did the math over yo...
So once again Janice proves that not only is she a nerd, she’s a useful nerd who gets to stay on the team.
She extends a fingertip. After a moment's hesitation, Manfred extends a fingertip of his own. They touch, exchanging vCards and instant-messaging handles. She stands and stalks from the breakfast room...
Rita stopped, suddenly acutely aware that while curiosity was her job, too much curiosity was reputedly felicidal:
Ras is a big fan of Noam Chomsky; calling it the Propaganda Ministry keeps things honest, he says. Like having a Ministry of War rather than a Department of Defense, or Counting Other People’s Murdere...
OF COURSE, SPACE travel isn’t only about being stuffed into a claustrophobia-inducing cell, scared witless, trussed up in a restraint harness, and raped through every orifice for years on end. Because...