I hadn’t known that, I said. I always tend to assume there’s an infinite amount of money out there. There might as well be, Arsibalt said, but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water, and bo...
I am an Aleut. Oh, I've never heard of that. That's because we've been fucked over, the big scary Aleut says, worse than any other people in history.
His job on TV was to explain science to the general public and, as such, to act as a lightning for people who could not accept all the things that science implied about their worldview and their way o...
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...
He remained in engineering and did more and more poorly at it until the middle of his senior year,
He is just your type, Uncle Meng said gently. Please, do try not to fuck him.How come it's okay for James Bond?
He had abundant free time, which he spent working on a series of new theorems in the field of information theory.
Hacker with Bullhorn: Save your money! Accept one of our free tanks! It is invulnerable, and can drive across rocks and swamps at ninety miles an hour while getting a hundred miles to the gallon!Prosp...
First, I must be getting the money on my side, because after magic wanes money is the most powerful thing on earth (followed by weapons that destroy whole cities in a go, and religion—that never goes...
Far to the east, just above the horizon, was an especially big dot of light, like the clasp on a necklace. That would be the colossal structure of the Eye, currently stationed above the Atlantic.
Entire sections of them simply cannot be translated - the characters are legible and well-known, but when put together they do not say anything that leaves an imprint on the modern mind.Like instructi...
Edzard screamed at the men on the starboard side, threatening to throw them overboard if they didn’t match the pace of the port team.
Each breaker, she supposed, was as unique as a human soul. Each made its own run up onto the shore, being the very embodiment of vigor and power at the start. But each slowed, spread thin, faltered, d...
Due diligence people are easy to manipulate. You just have to act really diligent. They eat it up.
Dinah said, Ivy, you want to take this or should I? I’ll do it. You’re busy, Ivy said. Dinah could hear her twisting around in the pilot’s seat to look at Julia. She spoke as follows: Julia. Shut up....
Desktops encourage the use of paper, which is archaic and reflects inadequate team spirit. What is so special about your work that you have to write it down on a piece of paper that only you get to se...
Cut, the journalist says, turning into the camera. Just cut. The BabbleBrigade has started up again.The soundtrack now consists of a thousand people speaking in tongues under thehigh-pitched, shit-eat...
Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whiskey, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on.
Computers rely on the one and the zero to represent all things. This distinction between something and nothing—this pivotal separation between being and nonbeing—is quite fundamental and underlies man...
Coals gleamed in the hearth and the air was fragrant with pine branches, frankincense, and lapsang souchong tea. It was New Year’s Day.