One of the great unwritten chapters of retail intelligence programming featured a personal shopper program that all-too-accurately modeled the shoppers’ desires and outputted purchase ideas based on w...
Now if you’ll excuse me, gentlemen, I need to play Russian roulette with our planet’s future with the bullet you’ve so thoughtfully provided. I hope you don’t mind if I don’t see you out.
It’s not that Seaborg disliked Harvey, but after a couple of combat drops with the 2nd Platoon one got the sense that if you didn’t like things to explode unnecessarily around you, you would want to s...
It’s a hell of a thing to say good-bye to your whole life.
Is it good? It ain't Shakespeare, but then, Shakespeare wrote , so you tell me.
In one hand I have a restraining order, and in the other I have a Taser. Which would you like to meet first?
Imagine waking up and finding your first and last view of the world was a shotgun barrel. That’d be a hell of a life.
If someone is telling you to live in interesting times, they are basically telling you they want you to die horribly, and to suffer terribly before you do. Seriously, they are not your friend. This is...
If knew you were going to drug me, kidnap me, and take me back to the dark ages with out my pants, I never would have slept with you.
I mean that you and I know that in this universe, God is a hack, he said. He's a writer on an awful science fiction television show, and He can't plot His way out of a box. How do you have faith when...
I had, bluntly, the worst fucking headache I had ever had in my life. I’m trying to think of the best way to describe it. Try this. Imagine a migraine, on top of a hangover, while sitting in a kinderg...
I glared at the man. You know, Dr. Russell, most doctors would have found a more tactful way to break the news.I'm sorry, Mr. Perry, Dr. Russell said. I don't want to seem unconcerned. But it's really...
I don’t think it matters what age you are when you figure it out, Brous said. I think the important thing is to figure it out before someone else tells you what you want to be, and they get it wrong.
He reached over, took the second cookie, and offered it to Robbins. Here, he said. I saw you coveting it. Robbins stared at the cookie, then looked around. I can’t take that, he said. Sure you can, Sz...
Harvey knew what he was and what he was best at: He was a noisy son of a bitch and he was good at making things fall down and go boom.
Get off my planet, you son of a bitch.
Do your people have racists? People who believe they are inherently superior to all other types of intelligent people? We have some, Sorvalh said. They’re generally agreed to be idiots.
Danielle Lowen: How are you? I am fine. The group that destroyed Earth Station and made it look like the Colonial Union did it is now planning to nuke the surface of your planet until it glows, and fr...
Cardenia gawked at Rachela I. You’re unbelievable. I worked in marketing, Rachela I said. Before I was a prophet. After, too, but we didn’t call it that after that point.
Captain, the problem is not that I’m paranoid. The problem is that the universe keeps justifying my paranoia.