He is sure that this would elevate his stature beyond that of dull software boy.
He is full of adrenaline, his nerves are shot, and his mind is cluttered up with free-floating anxiety-floating around on an ocean of generalized terror.
He is disappointed because he has solved the problem, and has gone back to the baseline state of boredom and low-level irritation that always comes over him when he’s not doing something that inherent...
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...
Has anyone you know ever been ritually mutilated because they were seen reading a book?
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...
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...
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...
Everything from the brim of this hat to the hem of her dress was too complex for Daniel’s eye to comprehend—he was like an illiterate savage staring at the first page of an illuminated Bible—but
Even though he grew up in churches, raised by church people, Waterhouse (as must be obvious by this point) never really understood their attitudes about sex. Why did they get so hung up on that one is...
Earth looked as if some god had attacked it with a welder’s torch, slashing away at it and leaving thin trails of incandescence.
Due diligence people are easy to manipulate. You just have to act really diligent. They eat it up.
Downtown is before them, as high and bright as the aurora borealis rising from the black water of the Bering Sea.
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.
Diax said something that is still very important to us, which is that you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it.
Daniel was slow to take up the cheer. But when he did, he meant it. This was politics. It was ugly, it was irrational, but it was preferable to war. Roger was being cheered because he had won. What di...