Melissa Tyson

“...and between us and the old English there lies a gulf of mystery which the prose of the historian will never adequately bridge. They cannot come to us, and our imaginations can but feebly penetrate to them. Only among the aisles of the cathedral, only as we gaze upon their silent figures sleeping on their tombs, some faint conceptions float before us of what these men were when they were alive.”
― T. H. White, The Sword in the Stone

“I had enough schooling to get by, or so I thought, and would soon realise that the university of life was an altogether harsher education. -- The Lost Bookshop”
― Evie Woods

“Yes, we have a magtyper composer - it's one of the new IBM photo-typing units. It was ordered especially for handling reports, brochures and pamphlets. It justifies lines automatically to any length you specify, even divide words when necessary. The only modification in it is that instead of using the IBM memory tank, we've hooked it into the master system. That way, we can use any typer in the plant for input and use the IBM full time for photo-typed output. You could write a letter in your office if you wanted to and get a perfectly justified printout - any type face - off the composer unit. Camera-ready copy.”
― David Gerrold, When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One

“Look, a computer is very much like a mystic oracle. You not only have to know what questions to ask, but how to phrase them -- and the answers are not always what you expect, nor necessarily in terms you can understand.”
― David Gerrold, When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One