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put the square root of five hundred and thirty-nine point seven together with the cosine of twenty-six point four three two

“OK,” said Richard, “I’ll be with you in about twenty minutes.” “Shall I leave the window open or would you like to try the door?” she said with a sniff.

"We used to get half an hour Observation Training on Tuesday afternoons. Just as a break after four hours solid of Senseless Brutality.”

“I believe that all things are fundamentally interconnected, as anyone who follows the principles of quantum mechanics to their logical extremes cannot, if they are honest, help but accept. But I also believe that some things are a great deal more interconnected than others."

Shapes that we think of as random are in fact the products of complex shifting webs of numbers obeying simple rules. The very word “natural” that we have often taken to mean “unstructured” in fact describes shapes and processes that appear so unfathomably complex that we cannot consciously perceive the simple natural laws at work.

Halfway through the book and we finally meet Dirk, and it's glorious. Ok, maybe too strong of a word but it's funny.

The ghost Gordon Way