By and by, this lady followed the Skull to his house, and the house was a hole under the ground.  When they reached there both of them entered the hole.  But there were only Skulls living in that hole.

I’m a high-school student. What should I study to promote paradise-engineering?

More blackened flesh and less ear needed.

I wrote this book in three months while simultaneously attempting seventeen other missions, including running a startup, launching a hit iPhone app, learning to write 3,000 new Chinese words, training to attempt a four-hour marathon from scratch, learning to skateboard, helping build a successful cognitive testing website, being best man at two weddings, increasing my bench press by sixty pounds, reading twenty books, going skydiving, helping to start the Human Hacker House, learning to throw knives, dropping my 5K time by five minutes, and learning to lucid dream. I planned to do all this while sleeping eight hours a night, sending 1,000 emails, hanging out with a hundred people, going on ten dates, buying groceries, cooking, cleaning, and trying to raise my average happiness from 6.3 to 7.3 out of 10.

If America Online wants to shut down all of the Web sites lambasting its service, it will face a fairly daunting task — the phrase “AOL Sucks” drags up 440 pages in one Hotbot search alone.

Sometimes, you get attached to your beguilin’, time-dilatin’, flame-throwin’, photosynthesizin’, gunslingin’ cowboy-snake called Grassy Jones.

Borel, then an unknown young man, discovered that his summation method gave the “right” answer for many classical divergent series. He decided to make a pilgrimage to Stockholm to see Mittag-Leffler, who was the recognized lord of complex analysis. Mittag-Leffler listened politely to what Borel had to say and then, placing his hand upon the complete works by Weierstrass, his teacher, he said in Latin, “The Master forbids it.”

We had met in 1976 at Berkeley in CS111 – Computer Science System Simulation – and we lived together for a while before getting married. He noticed I beat him on the midterm, so he became interested.

Never do business with a company offering ‘solutions’ as in 'ergonomic furniture solutions which minimise the postural strain associated with sitting’ (chairs) and 'Post Office mailing solutions’ (brown paper). The word suggests we have a problem, but since we are grown-ups, that is for us to decide

They have created chap-hop, fusing the American urban musical genre with the imagined lifestyle of the British upper classes.