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To him, the Breguet on his wrist didn’t measure time; it kept track of lost opportunities.
“This is what makes them good engineers. Perfectionism: incinerating perfectionism.”
― The Bug
― The Bug
“But Muir would not allow Sargent to get away with this. "Who cares where you wear your little heart, man," Muir countered, "there you stand in the face of all Heaven come down to Earth, like a critic of the universe, as if to say, "Come, Nature, bring on the best you have: I'm from BOSTON!”
― The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
― The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
“You mean you don't stage the software?" I asked him. "You don't test it?"
"Why should we? Everything we do is live all the time, always new, minute by minute.This is the Web! Code it, post it, run it, change it, run it again.”
― The Bug
"Why should we? Everything we do is live all the time, always new, minute by minute.This is the Web! Code it, post it, run it, change it, run it again.”
― The Bug
“It is an analyst's cliche that Pakistan is not a country with an army but an army with a country”
― The Long War: The Inside Story of America and Afghanistan Since 9/11
― The Long War: The Inside Story of America and Afghanistan Since 9/11
“Broad kept sweeping. He'd learned in Styria there's a lot of things that are better not thought about. Couldn't be a coincidence that the happiest men Broad had ever known were generally the stupidest.”
― A Little Hatred
― A Little Hatred
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