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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6fbce8f | zhit', kak zhivut rabochie, v dvukh komnatakh, bez prislugi... (Siuzi Branch - Streffordu) | Edith Wharton | ||
| 81c9917 | always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics," he said. "Then I read something" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 9d23c26 | iconic photos of some of the same people we | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b5225e4 | and he would take me to a sushi restaurant in | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 9c7f858 | that whatever he was touting was the best thing he | Walter Isaacson | ||
| afeac47 | it's like being attacked by a RAT! | fight fighting rejoinder | Chaucer Geoffrey | |
| 8d55ff2 | When he was restored to the throne at Apple, we put him on the cover of Time, and | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5410e78 | murder wol out | humanity inevitability murder | Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| f5e883e | una vez que algo esta escrito, debe necesariamente suceder) | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 96149f2 | had known him since 1984, when he came to Manhattan to have lunch with Time's editors | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 14d9158 | Nonsense is socially OK, but not stupidity. | Nonsense | ||
| a64e9fd | CLARITY TRUMPS CONSISTENCY If you can make something significantly clearer by making it slightly inconsistent, choose in favor of clarity. | Steve Krug | ||
| e904a62 | But when mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill! | Alexander Pope | ||
| e1d1881 | Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes; The glorious fault of Angels and of Gods. | Alexander Pope | ||
| b8d314e | On all the line a sudden vengeance waits, And frequent hearses shall besiege your gates. | Alexander Pope | ||
| da48c4d | To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. | Alexander Pope | ||
| d6954aa | Your mistake," Ng says, "is that you think that all mechanically assisted organisms -- like me -- are pathetic cripples. In fact, we are better than we were before." | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 8081cc1 | attacking a Time correspondent for having wounded | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b34fd18 | When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. | Alexander Pope | ||
| d2d81c4 | The most positive men are the most credulous... | Alexander Pope | ||
| 11052f4 | Te Whiti | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| 73f18bd | but not subjecting him to the tiresome demands of polite social interaction. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| ed68b09 | To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves. | Alexander Pope | ||
| a3dfb7f | Saracens | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| 06310c4 | Party is the madness of many, for the gain of a few. | Alexander Pope | ||
| 53fdf33 | Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. | Alexander Pope | ||
| 5673de4 | Y.T. knows he's a computer guy because he has long hair in a ponytail and he's wearing jeans and he seems gentle. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| dd3b33d | signaled | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 968a5e1 | He seemed not to know that he was quite handsome. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 7900518 | And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. | Alexander Pope | ||
| 763533a | Tekla wanted to slap her so much that her hand actually twitched. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 48b26f1 | Medical research conducted during the Iraq War has confirmed that immediate administration of morphine following a traumatic event can prevent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 292b26c | That seemed a bit odd. I didn't yet know that taking a long walk was his preferred way | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a806053 | Hobomok: | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| d9ec5a1 | me over the years, with occasional bursts of | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 701952a | Since the military part of town could not tolerate disarray and the commercial part found it unprofitable, all of the chaos had been pushed into the old town, which had become the kingdom of broken plans and improvisations | Neal Stephenson | ||
| d481bf8 | How This Book Came to Be | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 97005da | To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the Devil. | Nonsense | ||
| a5684c6 | Hackworth took a bite of his sandwich, correctly anticipating that the meat would be gristly and that he would have plenty of time to think about his situation while his molars subdued it. He did have plenty of time, as it turned out; but as frequently happened to him in these situations, he could not bring his mind to bear on the subject at hand. All he could think about was the taste of the sauce. If the manifest of ingredients on the bot.. | nanotechnology science-fiction | Neal Stephenson | |
| 7ca3068 | It was possible to look at actual smartphones and tablets and laptops that had been manufactured on Old Earth. They did not work anymore, but their technical capabilities were described on little placards. And they were impressive compared to what Kath Two and other modern people carried around in their pockets. This ran contrary to most people's intuition, since in other areas the achievements of the modern world - the habitat ring, the Ey.. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 7abcb83 | So, let me guess," she says, "you are the guy doing the software." "Yeah," he admits, a little defensive, "but the software is the only interesting part of this whole project. All the rest is making license plates." That wakes her up a little. "Making license plates?" "It's an expression my that my business partner and I use," Randy says. "With any job, there's some creative work that needs to be done-new technology to be developed or whate.. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| b43b89f | The world of physical objects seemed to have been made solely for the purpose of giving the men around Grandma something to do with their hands; and not, mind you, for any practical reason, but purely so that Grandma could twiddle those men's emotional knobs by reacting to how well or poorly they did it. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| d0b214b | Near Amy, Randy can see another silt-covered boulder near the surface, maybe six feet away. He gathers himself and leaps towards it. But it topples under the impact of his foot and sends him splashing full-length into the streambed. When he sits up and gets a look at it, the boulder turns out to be a squat cylindrical object about as big around as a dinner plate and several inches thick. 'Randy, what you're looking at is a Nip anti-tank min.. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 2c59708 | No intelligent person in Blue believes that, of course. | Neal Stephenson |