As the saying goes, when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
As the saying goes, when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Reader,
As it turned out, imagining the fate of seven billion people was far less emotionally affecting than imagining the fate of one.
An impressionistic map of the South China Sea has been dashed across these covers by molecularly reconstructed Ming Dynasty calligraphers using brushes of combed unicorn mane dipped into ink made of g...
Aister interprets the myth as 'an exposition of a logical problem: Supposingthat originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binarysexual relations come into being?'Ah, there's th...
He was fascinated by the mid-western/middle American phenomenon of recombinant cuisine. Rice Krispie Treats being a prototypical example in that they were made by repurposing other foods (to wit, bre...
How long do you want these messages to remain secret?[...]+I want them to remain secret for as long as men are capable of evil.
...Gold is gold everywhere, fungible and indifferent. But when a disk of gold is stamped by a coiner with certain pompous words and the picture of a King, it takes on added value -- seigneurage. It h...
What he’s really thinking is: why did I waste all those years in academia when I could have been doing great shit like this?
To insist on everything’s being reasonable, in a world that wasn’t, was, in itself, unreasonable.
This is the word—‘politics’—that nerds use whenever they feel impatient about the human realities of an organization.
This is how it’s done, you pile one thing on top of the next and you keep it up and keep it up—sometimes the galleon sinks in a typhoon, you don’t get your slab of granite that year—but you stick with...
Think that if Hiro was so convinced in his own mind that he was unworthy of her, maybe he knew something she didn't.
They had hired psychologists, invested millions in a project to sabotage movies—yes, the entire medium of cinema—to get their customers/players/addicts into a state of mind where they simply could not...
They didn't even try to arrest her in a gentlemanly way.
There was nothing you couldn’t accomplish if you crowded a few tens of millions of peasants together on the best land in the world and then never stopped raping their brains out for a thousand years.
The whole idea of stealing fantastically dangerous weapons presents the would-be perp with inherent dangers and contradictions: When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handl...
The usual academician’s ace in the hole: everything is relative, it’s all just differing perspectives.
The pole’s center was a gleaming lump about the size of a person’s head, which any Spacer would recognize as a small nickel-iron asteroid, as common in space as dead leaves were on the reforested surf...
So efficient it doesn't waste power by making noise