Once she gets over the shock of it and settles into a routine, she startslooking around her, watching the other fish-cutting dames, and realizes thatthis is just like life must be for about 99 percent...
Not that any of the sysadmin’s knowledge and skills were applicable here.The psychological stance was the thing: the implicit faith, a little naive and a little cocky, that by banging his head against...
Nope. Look. The Raft is a media event. But in a much more profound, generalsense than you can possibly imagine.Huh?It's created by the media in that without the media, people wouldn't know itwas here,...
None of them have cars, but when they do, they are three-ton hand-built beasts.
No, rebellion is what the Duke of Monmouth did, it is a petty disturbance, an aberration, predestined to fail. Revolution is like the wheeling of stars round the pole. It is driven by unseen powers, i...
No surprises is the motto of the franchise ghetto, its Good Housekeeping seal, subliminally blazoned on every sign and logo that make up the curves and grids of light that outline the Basin. The peopl...
Natural Philosophy cannot advance without attacking theories that are old, and beating back new ones that are wrong, neither of which may be accomplished without doing some injury to their professors.
Native Americans had tricksters—creatures full of cunning—like Coyote and Raven in their mythologies, but they didn’t have technology yet, and so they hadn’t coupled the Trickster with Crafts to gener...
NONE OF YOU WILL EVER STAND ON TERRA FIRMA, TOUCH YOUR loved ones, or breathe the atmosphere of your mother planet again, the president said. That is a terrible fate. And yet it is a better fate than...
Moral reforms and deteriorations are moved by large forces, and they are mostly caused by reactions from the habits of a preceding period. Backwards and forwards swings the great pendulum, and its alt...
Menopause had finally terminated her fantastically involved and complex relationship with her womb: a legendary saga of irregular bleeding, eleven-month pregnancies straight out of the Royal Society p...
Mammon led them on, Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From heav’n, for ev’n in heav’n his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heav’ns pavement, trod’n Go...
Leibniz’s most fundamental assumption, namely that the universe makes sense and that the human has the power to make sense of it and that, consequently, pure metaphysics is no waste of time, remains p...
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...
Lagos, typically for a nonbusinessman, had a fatal flaw: he thought too small.He figured that with a little venture capital, this neurolinguistic hackingcould be developed as a new technology that wou...
It’s just like the reviews promised—other people’s ordinariness is more rewarding than your own. Their banality is soothing to your own sense of failure. Because being you is so much more interesting...
It's time for him to get over into the right lanes where theretards and the bimbo boxes poke along, random, indecisive, looking at eachpassing franchise's driveway like they don't know if it's a promi...
It would be easier, Doob said, if I could figure out what the hell she wanted. You’re assuming, Luisa said, that she has a plan. I doubt that she does. She is driven to seek power. She finds some way...
It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists.
It registered on the mind as a blunt impression that could be talked about only by smearing it into some gray word like complicated.