“Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.”
― Quicksilver
― Quicksilver
“Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just
as math is the key -- and we will survive or founder, depending on how
well the librarians do their jobs. Librarians didn't look glamorous to
me but maybe Dad had hit on a not very obvious truth.”
―
as math is the key -- and we will survive or founder, depending on how
well the librarians do their jobs. Librarians didn't look glamorous to
me but maybe Dad had hit on a not very obvious truth.”
―
“Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo---which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead.”
― Cryptonomicon
― Cryptonomicon
“Show some fucking adaptability!”
― Cryptonomicon.
― Cryptonomicon.
“Time is money, but also money is money.”
― Pattern Recognition
― Pattern Recognition
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