But thoughts of this sort were chased away by others. One of those moments had arrived: Jack had been presented with the opportunity to be stupid in some way that was much more interesting than being...
But this was how the mind worked. The mind couldn’t think about the End of the World all the time. It needed the occasional break, a romp through the trivial.
But this is how history is done now. People wait until they have a need for some history and then they customize it to suit their purposes.
But the rest of our lives will happen in the future, Randy, so we might as well get with the program now.
But Jack was not Polish scum of the earth, barefoot and chained to the land, or even French scum of the earth, in wooden clogs and in thrall to the priest and the tax-farmer, but English scum of the e...
But I have to warn you that this is the word—‘politics’—that nerds use whenever they feel impatient about the human realities of an organization.
Boredom is a mask that frustration wears.
Boredom is a mask frustration wears.
Babel led to an explosion in the number of languages. That was part of Enki's plan. Monocultures, like a field of corn, are susceptible to infections, but genetically diverse cultures, like a prairie,...
At this point, Mrs. Disher stepped in to say, if you thought that was scary, look at how poor people lived in the late twentieth century. Indeed, after ractives told them about the life of an inner-ci...
Apple has always insisted on having a hardware monopoly, except for a brief period in the mid-1990s when they allowed clone-makers to compete with them, before subsequently putting them out of busines...
Anyway, my point is that guys like Flec have a weakness, almost a kind of addiction, for the mystical, as opposed to poetic, way of using their minds. And there’s an optimistic side of me that says su...
And once the lens was finally exposed, pure geometric equation made real, so powerful and vulnerable at once, Hiro could only think it was like nuzzling through skirts and lingerie and out labia and i...
And he can convert millions of people to his religion because it spreads like a fucking virus—people have no resistance to it because no one is used to thinking about religion, people aren’t rational...
Also known as ‘Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah,’ or in the original Welsh, ‘Cwm Rhondda,’ added Sonar Taxlaw.
Allegedly there was a Google Docs spreadsheet where it was being kept track of, but no one could agree on where it was.
All the potential emperors are assholes, and they’re all related to each other, it hardly matters which one wins. So
All philosophies are eithermonist or dualist. Monists believe that the material world is the only world --hence, materialists. Dualists believe in a binary universe, that there is aspiritual world in...
Academics being no less nomadic than Congregational preachers, he took work where he could find it. He became a Professor of Greek and Latin at
AMONGOL, KNOCKED INTO a cook fire during the initial surge of horsemen, had lived long enough to run—shirt and hair on fire—into the rows of tents. Rutger assumed he had died from the burns, but befor...