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 can’t predict the future, I said, but based on what little I know so far, I’m afraid it has to be a massive adventure or nothing. Great! Probably the kind of adventure that ends in a mass burial. Th...
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...
I apologize if my limbic system has misinterpreted your gesture of emotional support.
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...
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...
Her coverall darkens, the colors shimmer through the electropigment like an oil slick, and then it’s black.
He went back to Iowa State, considered changing his major to mathematics, but didn’t. It was the consensus of all whom he consulted that mathematics, like pipe-organ restoration, was a fine thing, but...
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...
He was already thinking about the videos he was going to make to teach his baby about calculus when he climaxed.
He pokes his katana through theside of the cube and follows it through the wall and out the other side.This is a hack. It is really based on a very old hack, a loophole that he foundyears ago when he...
He meant rather that the evolution of our minds from bits of inanimate matter was more beautiful and more extraordinary than any of the miracles cataloged down through the ages by the religions of our...
He is sure that this would elevate his stature beyond that of dull software boy.
He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the surest way to shock most people, in those days, was to believe that some...
He had had many conversations during his long life. Some were fascinating and stayed with him more than a century later. Others were less so. As a younger man he had tolerated those as part of the cos...
Había que humanizar los objetos, darles un nombre mono.
Get this one a copy of the Cryptonomicon. And a desk—as close to the coffee machine as possible. And why don’t you promote the son of a bitch as long as you’re at it.
GUIs tend to impose a large overhead on every single piece of software, even the smallest, and this overhead completely changes the programming environment. Small utility programs are no longer worth...