Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.

This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research.

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.

...your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.

Like any place in Reality, the Street is subject to development. Developers can build their own small streets feeding off of the main one. They can build buildings, parks, signs, as well as things that do not exist in Reality, such as vast hovering overhead light shows and special neighborhoods where the rules of three-dimensional spacetime are ignored.

Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.