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- The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. The problem…
- I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to…
- He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he…
- The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear…
- Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that…
- Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a…
- So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die." "Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber…
- And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to…
- If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of…
- All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one…
- But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If…
- If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?
- Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented…
- To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is…
- The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just…
- It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for…
- One of the problems, and it's one which is obviously going to get worse, is that all the people at the party are either the…
- I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the computer industry didn't…
- Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this -- partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they…
- Hey, this is terrific!" he said. "Someone down there is trying to kill us!" "Terrific," said Arthur. "But don't you see what this means?" "Yes.…
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- Dreams are what keep us going when real life lets us down. — Nishan Panwar
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts… — Kate Beckinsale
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is… — Billie Joe Armstrong