Many set themselves the aim of rescuing the indifferent and the lazy—and end up lost themselves. The flame within them gets dim with the passage of time. So, if you have the fire, run, since you never...
Many a ship's officer, caught in a storm or battle, and seized by a natural tendency to freeze up in terror, was moved to action by the vivid helplessness of his crew.
Let's set the existence-of-God issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet and immediately began trying to get ri...
Later, he was to decide that Andrew’s life had been fractally weird. That is, you could take any small piece of it and examine it in detail and it, in and of itself, would turn out to be just as compl...
Jedna z nejděsivějších věcí na skutečným inťoušovi pro většinu lidí není to, že se neumí chovat – protože to zažili všichni – ale spíš že se kvůli tomu vůbec necítí hloupě.
Izzy estaba llena de gente que se orientaba hacia el extremo Asperger del espectro social y la mejor forma de hacerla hablar era preguntarle por algún detalle técnico.
It’s not about how women are deficient. It’s more about how men are deficient. Our social deficiencies, lack of perspective, or whatever you want to call it, is what enables us to study one species of...
It's time to go, Vitaly says.You're telling me it's time to go? I've been waiting for you to wake up for anhour.As Hiro approaches, Vitaly watches his sword uncertainly. Vitaly's eyes are dryand red,...
It was a kind of eleemosynary institution,
It registered on the mind as a blunt impression that could be talked about only by smearing it into some gray word like complicated.
Indeed the Encyclopedia Qwghlmiana features a lengthy article about the local system of runes. The author of this article has such a chip on his shoulder that the thing is almost physically painful to...
In the parking lot of a Safeway on Oahu, he says. And he's telling the truth;in the background she can hear the shopping carts performing their clashy, analcopulations.I'm kind of busy now, Whitey --...
In a hypothetical, extremely simple Cloud Ark consisting of only two arklets, only one calculation needed to be performed: namely, the calculation that answered the question Will Arklet 1 bang into Ar...
Il mondo moderno è un disastro per chi si diletta a scrivere haiku: quante sillabe ci sono in «generatore elettrico»? Nove? Non ci starebbe neanche nel secondo verso.
If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?
If you had to give a name to the whole apparatus, what would you call it? Hmmm, Waterhouse says. Well, its basic job is to perform mathematical calculations—like a computer. Comstock snorts. A compute...
If it weren’t for the obvious drawbacks, I would recommend that everyone go crazy at least once in their lifetime, El said. It’s the most fascinating thing I’ve ever done. Going about it mindfully req...
I'll buy it right now, Jack, said an English voice, somehow familiar, if you stop being such a fucking tosser, that is.
I was going to kill that doctor when he shoved his finger up my ass but then I realized the possibilities of that substance.
I wanted to shout: one Far Side on the door does not an interesting person make.