Also the whining of small otters in nettle-beds at evening, the croaking of small-jays behind a wall, these are heart-pleasing.

The New York Times Magazine 2002 “Year in Ideas” issue cited Patio Man in its encapsulation of “Post-Soccer-Mom Nomenclature.”

She scorned medieval art as malevolent, stilted, and gargoyle-ridden.

Libraries of the future will have special “pseudo-librarians” who will have “thought every possible thought” about any given book [32].

Also, there are always possibilities like: the alien race that is watching us and waiting for us to achieve an IQ of 333, at which point it will swoop down upon us and eat us, or merge with us.

In particular, he gained international notoriety for his claims that blowing up the Moon would solve virtually every problem of human existence, and that mass and time are equivalent.

Murray claims that Mind is an artificial mind which is capable of thought, sentience, and linguistic communication. At the moment, however, it does not appear to do anything except spew meaningless and ungrammatical strings of words.

He’s meant to be the comic relief (obviously), apparently always has one eye closed and barely has a neck, but he also serves an invaluable purpose - he drives the supply truck that appears in many missions, which is vital to restocking and repairing your wanzers.

Although we rarely engage in vector summation consciously unless forced to do so in a math course, vertebrate brains are confronted with vector summation problems all the time.

“May the astral plane be reborn in cyberspace,” proclaims a tall sysop in a robe before sipping the heady honey wine.

“Plant the Net in the Earth,” says a freelance programmer, passing the horn to his left.

“And to Dr. Strange, who started it all,” Rowley says, toasting the Marvel Comics character before chuckling and draining the brew.