“Deadline-induced quality issues: a problem all over the galaxy.”
― Project Hail Mary
― Project Hail Mary
“Each spring, the schoolhouse was painted white as a bride, and every year the oceanic elements slowly undressed it.”
― Senlin Ascends
― Senlin Ascends
“Of course the Eridian language has no words for colors. Why would it? I never thought of colors as a mysterious thing. But if you’ve never heard of them before, I guess they’re pretty weird. We have names for frequency ranges in the electromagnetic spectrum. Then again, my students all have eyes and they were still amazed when I told them “x-rays,” “microwaves,” “Wi-Fi,” and “purple” were all just wavelengths of light.”
― Project Hail Mary
― Project Hail Mary
“Hey, Rocky!” I call out from the lab. “Watch me pull a Taumoeba out of a hat!”
― Project Hail Mary
― Project Hail Mary
“I was approximately as critical as toilet paper.”
― Project Hail Mary
― Project Hail Mary
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