"Did he not appear to you to be a public man of no little courage, no little candour and no little ability."

"The twentieth century had conclusively settled the question of how a society should be organised: liberal democracy, …"

"For James, there was no sense that expanding Tesco’s sales onto the web was what the human race urgently needed. It d…"

"It was insane that you had to pretend to be interested in your job and use these lame phrases like “pinging things ov…"

"James had assumed this would be a task of meticulous detection, of inefficiencies brilliantly uncovered, but there wa…"

"James was twenty- seven and never had a boss again. Until that moment, he and Roland had lived as employees, as if in…"

"James said that in years to come, when the company had swelled to thousands, people would brag about having been on t…"

"It was as if they were together in their campaign tent, studying the map and deciding where to deploy their regiments."

"This was what it must be like when the winners of some shitty trophy in Slovenia qualified for the Champions League a…"

"Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might be dragged along without them, it…"