Now he had learned that a machine, simple in its design, could produce results of infinite complexity.
Mt. Rainier: the stupendous volcanic shotgun pointed at Seattle’s head.
Microsoft is ten times smarter, a hundred times more aggressive, and bound by no particular rules. It gives Randy a little frisson just to imagine Harvard Li’s situation: being chased across the plane...
Lawrence concluded that Alan’s penis scheme must have finally found a taker.
Izzy was full of people who were skewed toward the Asperger’s end of the social spectrum, and there was no better way to get them to start talking than to ask them a technical question.
It’s as though anyone who argues clearly can’t be trusted—that’s the opposite of what reasonable people ought to think. That attitude is common even among faculty here, and I’m just at a loss to under...
It is early in November of 1942 and a simply unbelievable amount of shit is going on, all at once, everywhere.
It didn’t matter whether football for you was soccer or the American sport played by men in helmets.
If the Cloud Ark survived, it would survive on a water-based economy.
Ideology is a virus.
He perfectly fits the profile of a Hut 8 man, who need not know anything except pure math.
Domingo regarded the man for a moment before answering. The Ordo Militum Vindicis Intactae do not hire themselves out as caravan guards, he said finally. There are several hundred men-at-arms in Barce...
Diax said something that is still very important to us, which is that you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that ‘Diax’s Rake’ and sometimes we repeat it to ourse...
Chester nods all the way through this, but does not rudely interrupt Randy as a younger nerd would. Your younger nerd takes offense quickly when someone near him begins to utter declarative sentences,...
Because, Jack, you volunteered to be taken down into eternal torment in place of her. This is the absolute (unless I'm mistaken) that any female requires from her man.
An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and built a new market devoted to selling T-shirts and other object...
All the people saying mean things about me on the Internet are gonna be dead in four hundred and thirty-three days, she said, deadpan.
—Antes de esta reunión escribí media docena de cartas de despedida a viejos amigos y familiares —dijo—, y cuando terminemos, voy a seguir con la lista. Quizá logre escribir la mitad de las cartas ante...
Every pirate and privateer has lurking within him the soul of an accountant. Though some would say ’tis the other way round.
Could jab my thumb with it and draw blood. The brown smear across the top of this page can be tested in any twenty-first-century DNA lab. Compare