Telos

“While its output contains an apparently harmless one-cell one-row table, this is somehow troublesome when the president of the company tries viewing that web page on his cellphone/PDA, which has a typically limited understanding of HTML. Some experimentation shows that any web pages with tables in them will deeply confuse the boss’s PDA.”
― Sean M. Burke, Perl & LWP: Fetching Web Pages, Parsing HTML, Writing Spiders & More

“the days when Cody and the troopers of the Fifth Cavalry rode hell-for-leather across the prairie in pursuit of hostile Indians. Nor, though it is not usually considered a milestone in American history, should we forget Joseph F. Glidden's 1874 invention of barbed wire, which, more than the rifle or the plow, transformed Buffalo Bill's Great Plains by insuring the survival of thousands of family farms, and making possible the”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“final”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“returns, drinks in hand, the first things she sees are the letters, flashing in bright red on the screen. ADI. “I didn’t know how to spell your name,” he says. And it’s wrong, but it doesn’t”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue