Us—I looked at that beautiful snow-capped mountain and named it Eliza. Because it was warm, fertile, and beautiful below, while being a bit frosty and inaccessible at the top—yet possessing a volcanic...
Think that if Hiro was so convinced in his own mind that he was unworthy of her, maybe he knew something she didn't.
The federal government needs to be scaled back to a size where he can personally stomp it to death with steel-toed boots.
So efficient it doesn't waste power by making noise
Right now my mind is full of images, an overwhelming flood of memories and ideas—you have any idea how many memories are buried in the mind? Fishing for bluegill on Lake Argyle with my father, the hoo...
Its speedometer. But the bamboo grove in Bobby Shaftoe’s haiku has not been added just to put a little Oriental flavor into the poem and wow the folks back home in Oconomowoc.
It might be true in the future. But the rest of our lives will happen in the future, Randy, so we might as well get with the program now.
It has left a neat bomb-shaped hole in the deck, just like a panicky Warner Brothers cartoon character passing at high speed through a planar structure such as a wall or ceiling.
If any of them notice you and, for some reason, object to your little plan, whatever the fuck it is, then by all means kill them. And if that doesn’t work, please, by all means, kill yourself, because...
His whimper dying in his throat. There had been a flash of white moonlight reflecting off pale skin, and when the second one passed, he clapped his hand over his mouth to stifle his cry of terror at w...
But it seemed that most of the people of Seattle were still obeying the rules and so he did likewise.
You're a hacker. That means you have deep structures to worry about, too.Deep structures?Neurolinguistic pathways in your brain. Remember the first time you learnedbinary code?Sure.You were forming pa...
What’s a Klettersteig? Dinah asked, trying to move on. It is a mountain climb that is preengineered with cables, ladders, and so on. To make it easier, Dinah guessed. Oh, no. It is not easy. It is a w...
What if the places you went and the things you encountered in your work were more interesting than what was available in the physical world around you?
What else can you tell us about this batna, Surendranath? I learnt it from English traders in Surat, said the befuddled Surendranath, It stands for Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement.
Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.
War gives men good ignoring skills.
Vyacheslav exited through New Caird’s airlock, clambered down a stack of robots to the surface, and then made his way toward the site.
To paraphrase Tolstoy, all rich places were alike, but each poor place was poor in its own way.
To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.