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“That’s the problem with immortality,” mused Jack. “You never live long enough to get there.”
Mad Professor (2007)
The public revealed its single most predictable trait: fickleness.
Mad Professor (2007)
He’ll be back. Men always come back when they see you making money.
Mad Professor (2007)
“Relax, Wag.”
“Relaxing makes me tense!” I scream.
Mad Professor (2007)
It was good to be outside, away from the TV and the computer. The natural world had such high bandwidth.
Mad Professor (2007)
Old age is all about killing time.
Mad Professor (2007)
Thanks to environmental decline, kids of Janna’s age had never seen authentic wildlife. So they flipped for the Goob menagerie: marmosets with butterfly wings, starfish that scuttled like earwigs, long, furry frankfurter cat-snakes.
Mad Professor (2007)
Kelso had the kind of slit-eyed street smarts that came only from Berkeley law classes.
Mad Professor (2007)
Tug was fascinated, and not by the money involved. Like many mathematicians, Mesoglea considered money to be one boring, merely bookkeeping subset of the vast mental universe of general computation.
Mad Professor (2007)
Janna knew full well that the classic dot-com move was to grab that golden parachute and bail like crazy before the investors and employees caught on.
Mad Professor (2007)
It would take a supercomputer to simulate this puddle in real time—maybe even all the computers in the world. Especially if you included the air currents pushing the raindrops this way and that. Computable or not, it kept happening.
Mad Professor (2007)
“Security always soars along with unemployment,” said Pullen, nodding his head at his own wisdom. “We are in a major downturn. I’ve seen this before, so I know the drill. Locks, bolts, Dobermans, they’re all market leaders this quarter. That’s Capitalism 301, girls.”
Mad Professor (2007)
As he mentions this last sin, he looks down my nightgown, which I’m just loving. I press his hand against my warm thigh.
“Don’t worry, sweetie. I don’t live in Hell. I live in San Jose.”
Mad Professor (2007)
But Charles was the one who finally realized it was nuts to be walking around inside a sewer with a tweaker leading the way. The fact that Charles figured this out before me makes me wonder about myself. I think I’m spending too much time on my computer.
Mad Professor (2007)