Tcp Quotes

“You think I don’t deserve him,” I say to Cardan.
He smiles slowly, like the moon slipping beneath the waves of the lake. “Oh no, I think you’re perfect for each other.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“After every battle, he ritually dips his hood into the blood of his enemies. I’ve seen the hood, kept under glass in the armory. The fabric is stiff and stained a brown so deep it’s almost black, except for a few smears of green.
Sometimes I go down and stare at it, trying to see my parents in the tide lines of dried blood. I want to feel something, something besides a vague queasiness. I want to feel more, but every time I look at it, I feel less.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I have secrets aplenty. There are so many things you don't know, daughter of Madoc. And I think you crave a little violence yourself.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“At night, the human world looks as though it's full of fallen stars.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Your ridiculous family might be surprised to find that not everything is solved by murder," Locke calls after me.
"We would be surprised to find that," I call back.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“Like Roberts's first paper outlining the proposed Arpanet seven years earlier, the Cerf-Kahn paper of May 1974 described something revolutionary. Under the framework described in the paper, messages should be encapsulated and decapsulated in "datagrams," much as a letter is put into and taken out of an envelope, and sent as end-to-end packets. These messages would be called transmission-control protocol, or TCP, messages. The paper also introduced the notion of gateways, which would read only the envelope so that only the receiving hosts would read the contents.”
― Katie Hafner, Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet