Randall Hunt

“It’s a cloud computing term. When you need a virtual machine in the cloud, or a whole cluster of them, you go on Amazon Web Services or one of its competitors and spin up an ‘instance.”
― Neal Stephenson, Termination Shock

“Well, you’re not alone anymore, buddy,” I say. “Neither of us are.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“I grew weary of keeping up, Doctor. That is my story, if you must know. I grew weary of transitory knowledge, and decided to seek knowledge of a more æternal nature.”
― Neal Stephenson, The Baroque Cycle: Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World