“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to list its own directory. So I tried some test problems on it. It insisted that 2 + 2 = 3.99999999999999999999999.... When I tried to get it to admit that 4 = 2 + 2, it became angry and claimed that 4 = 3.141592653589793238462643383279... So I gave up.”
― The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
― The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
“Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.”
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“A monarch’s neck should always have a noose around it—it keeps him upright.”
― The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
― The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
“Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who’s boss.”
― The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
― The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
“I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.”
― Shards of Honour
― Shards of Honour
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