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“It is a hundred meters wide, with a narrow monorail track running down the middle. The monorail is a free piece of public utility software that enables users to change their location on the Street rapidly and smoothly. A lot of people just ride back and forth on it, looking at the sights. When Hiro first saw this place, ten years ago, the monorail hadn't been written yet; he and his buddies had to write car and motorcycle software in order to get around. They would take their software out and race it in the black desert of the electronic night.”
― Snow Crash
― Snow Crash
“Blame Lewis.”
― The Crow Road
― The Crow Road
“It was a war scripted by Heller from a story by Orwell, and somebody would be bombing their own airfield before too long, no doubt.”
― The Crow Road
― The Crow Road
“There really wasn’t a lot this machine could do that you couldn’t do yourself in half the time with a lot less trouble,’ said Richard, ‘but it was, on the other hand, very good at being a slow and dim-witted pupil.’
Reg looked at him quizzically.
‘I had no idea they were supposed to be in short supply,’ he said. ‘I could hit a dozen with a bread roll from where I’m sitting.’
‘I’m sure. But look at it this way. What really is the point of trying to trying to teach anything to anybody?’
This question seemed to provoke a murmur of sympathetic approval from up and down the table.”
― Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Reg looked at him quizzically.
‘I had no idea they were supposed to be in short supply,’ he said. ‘I could hit a dozen with a bread roll from where I’m sitting.’
‘I’m sure. But look at it this way. What really is the point of trying to trying to teach anything to anybody?’
This question seemed to provoke a murmur of sympathetic approval from up and down the table.”
― Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
“At about the end of the eighteen minutes and twenty miles, I said: “But suppose I don't find anything before election day?”
The Boss said, “To hell with election day. I can deliver Masters prepaid, special handling. But if it takes ten years, you find it.”
We clocked off five miles more, and I said, “But suppose there isn't anything to find.”
And the Boss said, “There is always something.”
And I said, “Maybe not on the Judge.”
And he said, “Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something.”
Two miles more, and he said, “And make it stick.”
And that was all a good while ago. And Masters is dead now, as dead as a mackerel, but the Boss was right and he went to the Senate. And Callahan is not dead but he has wished he were, no doubt, for he used up his luck a long time back and being dead was not part of it. And Adam Stanton is dead now, too, who used to go fishing with me and who lay on the sand in the hot sunshine with me and with Anne Stanton. And Judge Irwin is dead, who leaned toward me among the stems of the tall gray marsh grass, in the gray damp wintry dawn, and said, “You ought to have led that duck more, Jack. You got to lead a duck, son.” And the Boss is dead, who said to me, “And make it stick.”
Little Jackie made it stick, all right.”
― All the King's Men
The Boss said, “To hell with election day. I can deliver Masters prepaid, special handling. But if it takes ten years, you find it.”
We clocked off five miles more, and I said, “But suppose there isn't anything to find.”
And the Boss said, “There is always something.”
And I said, “Maybe not on the Judge.”
And he said, “Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something.”
Two miles more, and he said, “And make it stick.”
And that was all a good while ago. And Masters is dead now, as dead as a mackerel, but the Boss was right and he went to the Senate. And Callahan is not dead but he has wished he were, no doubt, for he used up his luck a long time back and being dead was not part of it. And Adam Stanton is dead now, too, who used to go fishing with me and who lay on the sand in the hot sunshine with me and with Anne Stanton. And Judge Irwin is dead, who leaned toward me among the stems of the tall gray marsh grass, in the gray damp wintry dawn, and said, “You ought to have led that duck more, Jack. You got to lead a duck, son.” And the Boss is dead, who said to me, “And make it stick.”
Little Jackie made it stick, all right.”
― All the King's Men
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