In their homes, in the shadowed alleyways or fields of grain or in the sodden paddies, in the pastures and forests and tributary cities, should a comet be seen in the sky or should an unseasonable storm strew devastation or, particularly, if the earth should shake, they murmur, “Water sleeps.” And they are afraid.
— Water Sleeps, Glen Cook
— Там зафиксировано потустороннее явление, — терпеливо объясняю я ему. — Вернее, не зафиксировано. — Это одно и то же. Призраки не ловятся на пленку.
— Мариам Петросян
February 27, 2013 at 7:57pm
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Fifty years ago, you would have had six new ideas before breakfast! And an erection.
— Accelerando
January 23, 2013 at 11:53pm
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“Actually, I’m more of a mechanic.”
“Of course,” she says, expressionless. “It’s your job to keep things broken.”
— Peter Watts, Starfish
She hears Brander trying to sing in the shower — as if we didn’t all get enough abuse during our childhoods.
— Peter Watts, Starfish
We didn’t have much documentation of our systems. All our knowledge transfer was done in person using heavy sarcasm and obscure hand waving.
— David Tate blog
Все они шли на север. Поскольку никто из них не вернулся, трудно сказать, ошиблись они или нет.
— “Хроники Нарнии” (sic!)
November 15, 2012 at 11:02pm
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If you take sexual advantage of her, you’re going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.
— Shepherd Book, Firefly
November 12, 2012 at 10:25am
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Gods collect the strangest things, and certain among them save lists.
— Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.
— Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archives
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