For members of the general public might not care about Wolf-Rayet stars in the Quintuplet Cluster, but they definitely saw why having hot rocks fall on one’s head was a good thing to avoid.
For between true science and erroneous doctrines, ignorance is in the middle. —HOBBES, Leviathan
Follow the loglo outward, to where the growth is enfolded into the valleys and the canyons, and you find the land of the refugees. They have fled from the true America, the America of atomic bombs, sc...
Fighting isn’t about knowing how. It’s about deciding to.
Fighting isn’t about knowing how, Ty said. It’s about deciding to.
Fair or not, Tavistock Prowse would forever be saddled with blame for having allowed his use of high-frequency social media tools to get the better of his higher faculties.
FORTRAN, BASIC, COBOL, LISP, Pascal, C, PROLOG, FORTH. You talk to the computer in one of these languages, and a piece of software called a compiler converts it into machine language.
FORERUNNER (deprecated synonyms: SUICIDE BOMBER, DEAD MAN RUNNING, SCHNEIDER) One who is Sent to a DTAP in which DODO has no Known Compliant Witch, safe house, or other contacts/infrastructure whatsoe...
FIGHTER (deprecated synonyms: CONAN, WARRIOR) One who specializes in missions where, to put it politely, martial attributes are of the essence. Since every DTAP has a unique environment surrounding we...
Extramuros: (1) In Old Orth, literally outside the walls. Often used in reference to the walled city-states of that age. (2) In Middle Orth, the non-mathic world; the turbulent and violent state of af...
Excuse me, Erszebet said sharply, as Frink began wandering into an explanation of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum theory that even I could sense was painfully cack-handed. Have you taken up...
Every true heart needed a pragmatic counterweight, and every cynic an idealist to lift his spirits.
Every parent of a teenager gets used to it: the moment in a child’s life when he or she decides that certain facts are just too much trouble to explain to Mom or Dad.
Ego audio Domine. Animus humilis igitur sub potenti manu Dei est. Mundus sum ego, et absque delicto immaculatus. Verbum vester in me caro et ferrum erit.
Eb closes his eyes, which is what he does during memory access,
Earth looked as if some god had attacked it with a welder’s torch, slashing away at it and leaving thin trails of incandescence.
Down by the river,Down by the banks of the River CharlesThat’s where you’ll find meAlong with lovers, muggers and thievesWell I love that dirty water,Oh Boston, you’re my home. —The Inmates
Disney and Apple/Microsoft are in the same business: short-circuiting laborious, explicit verbal communication with expensively designed interfaces. Disney is a sort of user interface unto itself—and...
Did you win your sword fight?Of course I won the fucking sword fight, Hiro says. I'm the greatest sword fighter in the world.And you wrote the software.Yeah. That, too, Hiro says.
Did you hook up with your girlfriend yet?No. But I have high hopes for that. Assuming I can stay alive.High hopes for what?Our relationship.Why? she asks. What's changed between then and now?This is o...