I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor.
I study dead languages for a living, I said. That’s why you hired me. Why should I be up to speed on your line of work? How’s your Serbo-Croatian? What’s your position on the relationship between Osca...
I made it into Wikipedia, sang Erszebet. I’ll bet none of my enemies ever made it into Wikipedia.
I know, Julia said. It is so difficult rebuilding an intelligence community from scratch. One must make do with the materials at hand. Their youth, their inexperience, and the openness they’ve come to...
I just saved your fucking life, Mom...It's like, if you--people of a certain age--would make some effort to just stay in touch with sort of basic, modern-day events, then your kids wouldn't have to ta...
I guessed that by pretending to be the leader I could make a few things go my way, at least for a little while, until they figured out I was faking it.
I found out that the idea of the Internet as a highly distributed, redundant global communications system is a myth,’’ he discovered. Virtually all communications between countries take place through...
I don’t think that teenagers are the way they are because of their age. It’s because they have nothing to lose. They simultaneously have a lot of time on their hands and yet are very impatient to get...
I don't think a Drop Top can can reach an orbit this high, can it? Dinah asked. Sean's coming alone. It's some kind of special one-passenger model -- the extra mass is being used for propellant. And...
I deal in information, he says to the smarmy, toadying pseudojournalist whointerviews him. He's sitting in his office in Houston, looking slicker thannormal. All television going out to Consumers thro...
I beg your pardon? Robson says.One thing Waterhouse likes about these Brits is that when they don't know what the hell you're talking about, they are at least open to the possibility that it might be...
Humans are conversant in many media (music, dance, painting), but all of them are analog except for the written word, which is naturally expressed in digital form (i.e. it is a series of discrete symb...
Human nature doesn’t change, Randy. Education is hopeless. The most educated people in the world can turn into Aztecs or Nazis just like that. He snaps his fingers.
Hollywood was all about. Hollywood was merely a specialized bank—a consortium of large financial entities that hired talent, almost always for a flat rate, ordered that talent to create a product, and...
His father was a sergeant major, his mother was a Korean woman whose people had been mine slaves in Nippon, and Hiro didn't know whether he was black or Asian or just plain Army, whether he was rich o...
Hiro walks straight through the display, and it vanishes. Amusement parks in the Metaverse can be fantastic, offering a wide selection of interactive three-dimensional movies. But in the end, they’re...
Hiro is a talented drifter. This is the kind of lifestyle that sounded romantic to him as recently as five years ago. But in the bleak light of full adulthood, which is to one's early twenties as Sund...
Hey, Shaftoe says, if we surrender to you, you’ll kill us. Right? Yes. If you guys surrender to us, we won’t kill you. Promise. Scout’s honor. For us, living or dying is not the important thing, Goto...
He was wearing a suit that appeared to have been constructed by 1) Dressing him in a blouse with twenty-foot long sleeves of the most expensive linen.2) Bunching the sleeves up in numerous overlapping...
He was emotionally worn out from wondering what she really thought of him, and confused by the fact that he cared so deeply about her opinion. And she, maybe, was beginning to think that if Hiro was s...