Boredom is a mask that frustration wears.
Besides, interesting things happen along borders—transitions—not in the middle where everything is the same.
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,...
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,
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...
And when horny, well-paid American flyboys are dropped into a culture defined half by cannibals and half by Frenchmen, you get a hell of a civilian economy.
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
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...
This is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this place. There's other people all around you, but they don't understand you and you don't understand them,...
The insects here see you as a big slab of animated but not very well defended food. The ability to move, far from being a deterrent, serves as an unforgeable guarantee of freshness.
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.
While people were not genetically different, they were culturally as different as they could possibly be, and that some cultures were simply better than others.
To insist on everything’s being reasonable, in a world that wasn’t, was, in itself, unreasonable.