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My direct experience (limited, thankfully) with CEOs who have played with a company's numbers indicates that they were more often prompted by ego than by a desire for financial gain.

I'm sorry. Is that too harsh an observation for you? Does that sound too much like the Truth? Fuck you. If anyone in this shithole city gave two tugs of a dead dog's cock about Truth, this wouldn't be happening.

Some asshole scraped the 'I' out of INVESTIGATOR with their keys six months ago. I simply can't be bothered to fix that one. For all the work I get, I may as well be an 'invest gator

Whenever I find myself somehow fooled into doing one of these talks, it's on the grounds that some confused soul thinks that I will talk about the digital world and the future. What always happens is that I rant for an unspecified length of time about obscure history and fringe beliefs. So you need to understand that you are now trapped in this room with me and I've already been paid. This is my cunning plan.

Science fiction is always about the time it's written in. 1984 was always about 1948. Science fiction is social fiction.

Detective John Tallow, 1st Precinct. You, said Scarly. I hate you so much my dick is hard.

Are you Satan? Satan was just a story. I am Karnak.

Science fiction is always about the time it's written in. 1984 was always about 1948. Science fiction is social fiction. I

Here is invariably a spiritual fact: Our spirit is released according to the degree of our brokenness.

In any reading experience there is an implied dialogue among author, narrator, the other characters, and the reader.

Detroit 8-1 vs. Baltimore, Chicago.

The difference between saints and the rest of us isn't that they have loving, pure beliefs and we don't; rather, they function solely from their essence

Motivation is what happens when you take hold of an idea. Inspiration is what happens when an idea takes hold of you.

it became clear that he was the only one who harbored long-term grievances about their childhood.

Which I guess is better than her playing her usual role in How I Ruined My Daughter's Life.

NOTICE Persons attempting to find a text in this book will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a subtext in this book will be banished; persons attempting to explain, interpret, explicate, analyze, deconstruct, or otherwise understand it will be exiled to a desert island in the company only of other explainers. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR

This religion that scorned the beauty and goodness of this world was a puzzle to me.

Fred McLaren's terrific book, Silent and Unseen: On Patrol in Three Cold War

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

Charles J. Shields

He was a boring bully. Never hit me, but he would talk and talk about science until my sister and I were bored shitless."54

Gus Lee, who later wrote Honor and Duty

Who would believe that? Nobody. And wasn't it just as well? Wasn't it even more fun—weren't you liked even more—if they sort of got the teasing impression that maybe the story was true and maybe it wasn't?—if you left it up to them, like the author's point in The Guardsman?

Don't be fooled by what the Sunday reviewers say of the jazz-age, Saturday-Evening-Post-popularity, et cetera. People will be going back to Fitzgerald one day as they now go back to Henry James.