A fucking rat race that is. CosaNostra Pizza doesn't have any competition. Competition goes against the Mafia ethic. You don't work harder because you're competing against some identical operation dow...
You’re going to fly a radioactive ice ball the size of the Death Star back here just as the shit is hitting the fan—then what?
Your mistake, Ng says, is that you think that all mechanically assistedorganisms -- like me -- are pathetic cripples. In fact, we are better than wewere before.
You know, said Jack, I was a King for a while in Hindoostan, and my subjects would get worked up into a lather about a potato, which to them was worth as much as a treasure-chest. At first I'd want to...
You could get used to anything. You got used to it and then time raced by, and before you knew it, time was up.
Yo, Y.T., Roadkill says, 'sup?'Sup with you?Surfing the Tura. 'Sup with you?Maxing The Clink.Whoa! Who popped you?MetaCops. Affixed me to the gate of White Columns with a loogie gun.Whoa, how very! W...
Y.T. is bored. She gets on her plank. The wheels blossom and become circular.She guides a tight wobbly course around the cars, coasts down into the street.The spotlight follows her for a moment, maybe...
When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins. Hiro
When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens.
What should we be doing in the meantime? All of the things you will look back on fondly later when you have not been able to do them for a long time.
What do you mean by values? They were code words like honesty, hard work, self-reliance . . . myths, actually, to motivate the people to accept the natural inequities found in a market system.
Well, says Uncle Enzo. It is the well that begins the end of aconversation. I was going to send you some roses, but you wouldn't really beinterested in that, would you?
We've got two kinds of language in our heads. The kind we're using now isacquired. It patterns our brains as we're learning it. But there's also atongue that's based in the deep structures of the brai...
We are technocrats. We make decisions like engineers. Which doesn't always line up with what people imagine they want.
Waterhouse's new roommate is out of town just now, but by glancing over his personal effects, Waterhouse estimates that he is paddling a black kayak from Australia to Yokosuka Naval Base, where he wil...
Waging war on his enemies had been Sokolov’s habit and his profession for a long time, but being chivalrous to everyone else was simply a basic tenet of having your shit together as a human and as a m...
WITH CNÁN’S HELP, Raphael dressed the knife wound on Haakon’s hip. Raphael moved stiffly, and Haakon eventually saw why. A tiny stub of a broken arrow protruded from Raphael’s back. When Raphael finis...
Unfortunately, this category of secret is itself so secret that it's very existance is secret, and he can't actually reveal it to anyone.
Two tires fly. Two Wail.A bamboo grove, all chopped downFrom it, warring songs.
To Randy and the others, the business plan functions as Torah, master calendar, motivational text, philosophical treatise. It is a dynamic, living document.