Today I: smoke/am overweight/have a shitty attitude/am depressed because: my mom died of cancer/my uncle put his thumb up my butt/my dad hit me with a razor strop seems kind of overly deterministic to...
Thousands of years ago, the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same every day, in organizations where people were interchangeable parts. All of the story had been bled o...
This was governed entirely by Newtonian mechanics. Each piece of the moon attracted every other piece more or less strongly depending on its mass and its distance. It could be simulated on a computer...
They walk into the hop field. Carefully. There is an enveloping smell, a resiny odor not unlike marijuana, the sharp smell that comes off an expensive beer.
The lumbering bagos and topheavyfour-wheelers form a moving slalom course for Hiro on his blackmotorcycle.All these beefy Caucasians with guns! Get enough of them together, looking forthe America they...
The ineffable talent for finding patterns in chaos cannot do its thing unless he immerses himself in the chaos first.
THE MONASTERY GATE was as weak as Finn surmised, the timbers splintering after three strong kicks from Finn’s boot. Using his spear as a wedge, he ripped and tore the rotted wood away until there was...
So which theory did Lagos believe in? Therelativist or the universalist?He did not seem to think there was much of a difference. In the end, they areboth somewhat mystical. Lagos believed that both sc...
So she spends until about eleven A.M. reading, re-reading, and understanding the new changes in the Project. There are many of these, because this is a Monday morning and Marietta and her higher-ups s...
Smart, rabidly paranoid people are the backbone of cryptology,
Private Hott is with God now—or wherever people go after they die, says Enoch You can call me Brother Root. What kind of an attitude is that!? Course he’s with God. Jesus Christ! ‘Wherever they go whe...
No matter how smart we get, there is always this deep irrational part that makes us potential hosts for self-replicating information.
Nell, the Constable continued, indicating through his tone of voice that the lesson was concluding, the difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has...
My se ve světě protloukáme, protože víme, že dvě plus dvě jsou čtyři, a držíme se toho tak usilovně, až je to kapku hloupý a občas se to může dotknout něčích citů. Je mi to líto.„Čích citů jako? Lidí,...
Like any place in Reality, the Street is subject to development. Developers canbuild their own small streets feeding off of the main one. They can buildbuildings, parks, signs, as well as things that...
It was not the sharp bracing fear one felt on an adventure,
It was humanly impossible to extend to seven billion people the full sympathy that each of them deserved.
It is miserably clear that the video has been shot by a third conspirator who is burdened with a consumer-grade camcorder and reeling from some kind of inner-ear disease that he or she would like to s...
Is dangerous, I know, to take ride from strangers. With assault rifle in backpack, not so dangerous.
In most of the world, Magellan is thought of as the first guy who went around the world. Here, everyone knows he only made it as far as Mactan Island, where he was killed by Filipinos.