Quotes About Stephenson

And has it ever occurred to you, Miss Griffith, that you would probably not be able to take a good express train to London if little Georgie Stephenson had been out with his youth movement instead of lolling about, bored, in his mother's kitchen until the curious behaviour of the kettle lid attracted the attention of his idle mind?

I put weight on easily if I eat too much and don't exercise. When I went on my honeymoon in 1999, I put on a stone in three weeks!

They got rid of most of their guns, and took advantage of the surprisingly easy Canadian laws about swords.

The director is a Canadian, Jeff Stephenson, and any time I get a script that has any Canadian component, I'm always immediately much more interested.

I have devoted much effort, during the last decade or so, to the systematic encouragement of subversiveness.

And Türing answered another," Rudy said. "Who's that?" "It's me," Alan said. "But Rudy's joking. 'Turing' doesn't really have an umlaut in it." "He's going to have an umlaut in him later tonight," Rudy said, looking at Alan in a way that, in retrospect, years later, Lawrence would understand to have been smoldering.

You mentioned . . . one of the two great labyrinths into which the mind is drawn. What . . . is the other? The other is the composition of the continuum, or: what is space?

Space and Time! Two minor omissions that no one is likely to notice, grumbled Newton.

Tav started it," Aïda said. "He ate his own leg. Soft cannibalism, he called it. Legs are of no use in space. He blogged it. Then it went viral.

Maybe this was all down to some supernatural effect, such as grace, that flowed through people's lives even if they didn't understand why.

Markus's mind jumped straight to the most obvious explanation: "Is the president nuking people again?

Among geeks, the cool-soundingness of the acronym is more important than the existence of what it refers to.

in the Metaverse, Hiro Protagonist is a warrior prince.

If it's wearing red, yellow, or both, it's a lama," he said. "Bow to it." "Isn't that a camel from South America?

He meant rather that the evolution of our minds from bits of inanimate matter was more beautiful and more extraordinary than any of the miracles cataloged down through the ages by the religions of our world.

There is an English expression: 'high-maintenance girlfriend,' Csongor remarked. Now, of course, Zula is not my girlfriend. Probably never would be, even if all this shit were not happening. And I think that if she were my girlfriend? She would not be high maintenance at all! She is just not that type of girl. However. Because of circumstances, today she is the most high-maintenance girlfriend since Cleopatra.

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this is the word—'politics'—that nerds use whenever they feel impatient about the human realities of an organization.

Zipper the Fatlanders called it. Cock-catcher it was to Hunfast, the hapless.

Fraa Jad took the garment from me and discovered how the fly worked. "Topology is destiny," he said, and put the drawers on.

Some of them, out of habit, looked at him soberly; etiquette dictated that you give all sympathy to the oppressed.

If this all seems ambiguous, that's because it is; and if that troubles you, you'd hate it here; but if it gives you a feeling of relief, then you are in the right place and might consider staying.

Anyone who made it through the screening and the training required to become an Arkie"—which doesn't include you, Julia—"will understand exactly what we are trying to do from an orbital mechanics standpoint.

To this point it probably looks like I am setting this up as a slam-dunk case for ambulating while working, and getting ready to lambaste treadmill-resistant managers as insensitive and tragically shortsighted knuckle draggers. Well, they are.