Gold is the corpse of value.

I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there." There might as well be, "Arsibalt said, "but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators.

This is exactly how the World Wide Web works: the HTML files are the pithy description on the paper tape, and your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.

If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.

Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.

Even the best of us have certain psychological mechanisms that can suddenly kick in and turn us into monsters.

Wired people should know something about wires.