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""Hey, friend!" says Mary's date. Waterhouse turns towards the sound of the voice. The sloppy grin draped across his f…"

"There is a remarkably close parallel between the problems of the physicist and those of the cryptographer. The system…"

"This morning [Imelda Marcos] offered the latest in a series of explanations of the billions of dollars that she and h…"

"The modern world's hell on haiku writers: "Electrical generator" is, what, eight syllables? You couldn't even fit tha…"

"This ain't just your regular Friday p.m. Shanghai bank district money rush. This is an ultimate settling of accounts …"

"Let's set the existence-of-God issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating …"

"When Lawrence understood, it was as if the math teacher had suddenly played the good part of Bach's Fantasia and Fugu…"

"Multiply those two things together and you get the kind of exponential growth that should get us all into fuck-you mo…"

"Root drifts off into a coma, mumbling something about cigars… Rudy is nowhere to be found, and Shaftoe suspects he ha…"