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.
When the Bolide Fragmentation Rate shot up through a certain level on Day 701, marking the formal beginning of the White Sky, a number of cultural organizations launched programs that they had been pl...
When a thing such as wax, or gold, or silver, turns liquid from heat, we say that it has fused, Eliza said to her son, and when such liquids run together and mix, we say they are con-fused. Papa says...
When Hiro learned how to do this, way back fifteen years ago, a hacker could sit down and write an entire piece of software by himself. Now, that's no longer possible. Software comes out of factories,...
What’s the point? The mass of people are so stupid, so gullible, because they want to be misled. There’s no way to make them not want it. You have to work with the human race as it exists, with all of...
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 makes one Sumerian city better than another one? A bigger ziggurat? Abetter football team?Better me.What are me?Rules or principles that control the operation of society, like a code of laws,but...
What is your name? Ariane asked him. The kid put up his deflector screens and said, Einstein. Silence then. When no one laughed, he stood straighter and drifted closer.
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.
We’re like meridians, all beginning and ending in the same place. We spread out from the beginning and go our separate ways, over seas and mountains and islands and deserts, each telling our own story...
We’re all nerds now. We might as well get good at it.
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 had these throwbacks who would do stuff like printing their emails out on paper to read them, or asking you for your goddamn fax number two decades after you had thrown away your fax machine.
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...
Vyacheslav exited through New Caird’s airlock, clambered down a stack of robots to the surface, and then made his way toward the site.
Two days later a Scout simply disappeared without explanation, possibly the victim of a micrometeoroid, or even of suicide.
Topology is destiny,' he said, and put the drawers on. One leg at a time.
To put it mildly, the International Space Station, until now, had never been the kind of place for surprise visits.