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Gold is the corpse of value.
Boredom is a mask frustration wears.
...your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.
Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.
She's not afraid. She's wearing a dentata.
To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.
Wired people should know something about wires.
It is the fate of operating systems to become free.
I am on an expense account that would blow your mind.
Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?
A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement.
Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.
Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.
It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for.
Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.
The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them.
Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us.
I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor.
You don't want your readers seeing easy connections; it becomes a distraction.
Two tires fly. Two Wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down From it, warring songs.
[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.
What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write.
I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up.
Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.
When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.
Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.
So, you're worried that a pink dragon will fly over the concent and fart nerve gas on us?
Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.
The sight of the bare katana inspires everyone to a practically Nipponese level of politeness
How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How could you tell?
The hour of noon has passed,' said Judge Fang. 'Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken.
You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake.
Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.
Interesting things happen along borders - transitions - not in the middle where everything is the same.
If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?
I actually don't think that there is a connection between the survival instinct and a hunger for immortality.
If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.
I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun.
Even the best of us have certain psychological mechanisms that can suddenly kick in and turn us into monsters.
See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places.
The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.
Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.
That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.
There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery
She looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that's partly why they love me, and partly why they leave
It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.
Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?
Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.
This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.
Clearly Mr. Drkh has had a long career of being the weirdest person in any given room, but he's about to go down in flames.