“wrong, Miss Drew,”
― The Secret Lost at Sea
― The Secret Lost at Sea
“Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“Over me, about me, closing in on me, embracing me ever nearer, was the Eternal, that which was before the beginning and that which triumphs over the end; that enormous void in which all light and life and being is but the thin and vanishing splendour of a falling star, the cold, the stillness, the silence, - the infinite and final Night of space.”
― The First Men in the Moon
― The First Men in the Moon
“Part of the hem floated loose. She spun around again—the fabric tightened like wool on a spindle. She breathed in fear. The boat was farther away. She swung her head around—so was the shore.”
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
“When the veterans in the group were growing up, computers were quite rare and expensive, but Veres went to school in the age when anyone with a little money and skill could make up a small personal system. Veres says that what he does at home is different enough from what he does at work to serve as recreation for him. At work he deals with hardware; when he’s at home, he focuses on software—reading programming manuals and creating new software for his own computer.”
― The Soul of A New Machine
― The Soul of A New Machine
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