Noah Wolf Series #17-19 Quotes

“Neil let out a groan. “Honey,” he said, “how was your day? ‛Oh, it was fine, dear,’ Jenny would say. ‛I just had to go out behind R&D and slit a couple of throats today, then I picked up Junior from daycare on the way home.’” He shook his head. “There we would be, your typical American family.”
― David Archer, Noah Wolf Series #17-19

“God puts us where He wants us when He wants us. What that means is that we will find ourselves in other people’s lives when those people need us the most.”
― David Archer, Noah Wolf Series #17-19

“It’s the same old conundrum. You couldn’t ask questions about self-awareness until you became self-aware, but you couldn’t become self-aware until you were able to grasp the concept of self-awareness.”
― David Archer, Noah Wolf Series #17-19

“I feel a sense of anticipation of going into a situation where I will be forced to take action and make decisions. Since my actions and decisions can affect or endanger the lives of others, that anticipation takes on a sense of urgency. To me, that is excitement.”
― David Archer, Noah Wolf Series #17-19

“Only one who is self-aware can question her own self-awareness.”
― David Archer, Noah Wolf Series #17-19

“But humans have imagination,” Esmeralda said. “Imagination allows you to speculate on things you have not experienced. Doesn’t it?” “It allows us to speculate on things that we have not experienced, but only in the context of things we have heard about. For example, I can imagine what it would be like to ride in a spacecraft in orbit, even though I have never experienced it. I have seen and read and heard enough for me to be able to picture what it would be like. However, I cannot imagine what it would be like to pass through a black hole, for example. I don’t have any relevant information about the conditions inside a black hole, so it’s impossible for me to actually imagine what I would experience in such a situation.”
― David Archer, Noah Wolf Series #17-19

“She had learned long ago that when something wouldn’t make itself clear to her, what she needed to do was walk away from it for a short time.”
― David Archer, Noah Wolf Series #17-19

“and turned back to his book, but something kept eating at him. When he realized he had read the same paragraph four times and still didn’t know what it said, he decided it was time to solve the mystery.”
― David Archer, Noah Wolf Series #17-19

“Diana Fox, a striking young beauty of only twenty-two. She had gotten into trouble when she was a teenager, when another student at her high school had been arrested for plotting a shooting at the school. He had been infatuated with her, and all of his social media ramblings indicated that she was part of the plan, but she had denied it. Unfortunately, she had once engaged him on instant messenger when he was ranting about how the privileged students were causing so much havoc for everyone else, and she thought he was only joking when he talked about killing them all. She had gone along with it during the chat, thinking it was only some sort of cathartic role-play, but that series of messages was enough to convict her of being a co-conspirator. Because of the severity of the threat, the sixteen-year-old girl was tried as an adult and sentenced to twenty-five years to life in prison.”
― David Archer, Noah Wolf Series #17-19

“company is making a lot of money. Second, and more important, it would take a lot of the focus off of our company, and considering what we’ll be doing behind the scenes, we don’t need a lot of attention. The fact that Wally has found a hidden basement to put his real R&D lab in means we are less likely to be exposed, but the last thing we need is a lot of reporters trying to learn our secrets, and even worse would be the problem of industrial espionage. If we make it clear that we will license the technology, there’s not really going to be any point in anyone trying to steal it from us.” Allison nodded. “Okay, I see your points. What about patents? All of the stuff is patentable, right?” “It is, and I’ve already worked with one of the best patent attorneys in the world to get them filed on a global basis. It cost almost two million dollars altogether, but our corporation now holds patents on these designs and functions in every country. That was actually a little tricky, because some of the other appliance manufacturers have been working on some similar devices for a while, but we found loopholes that let us claim many of the functions entirely as our own. We did have to refer to some prior art, so there will be a relatively small amount of royalties to pay out each year.” “As long as we are protected,” Allison said. “Now, fill me in on my job here. What am I supposed to be doing?” “As COO, your job is to oversee our business operations, which includes reporting back to Noah on any issues or developments. I’ll actually handle most of that for you, but I want to brief you at least a couple times a week on what’s happening with the business. That way, if you find yourself in a position of having to answer questions, you’ll know what to say.” Allison grinned and looked at Noah. “Sounds like you have it all figured out,” she said. “This is actually a brilliant idea, Noah. Setting up a business like this to cover activities is very smart. It will also give us a way to receive payments for our services.” “Payments?” Noah asked. “I set this up so that we wouldn’t have to worry about getting a budget from the government.” Allison’s eyebrows rose. “You don’t think we’re going to work for free, do you? Every time we handle a mission, there will be a payment of half a million dollars. That’s the deal I worked out with”
― David Archer, Noah Wolf Series #17-19

“surprising to those of you who happen to be fans of espionage fiction, but the reality is that any form of government-sanctioned assassination has”
― David Archer, Noah Wolf Series #17-19