Die Welt braucht keine Milliardäre
Stellt euch vor, wie schön es ohne euch wäre
Empathie und Vernunft, statt Raffgier und Beschiss
Frische Luft, grüne Wälder, saub’re Meere
Six powers of ten should be enough for everyone.
At least use "-- " please.
Long email signatures are the golden letter seals of the modern age.
Brainfarts.
Apparently the part of the brain that identified things as funny kept running as a background process even when its contributions were useless.
Neal Stephenson: Seveneves
Talkage.
He had had many conversations during his long life. Some were fascinating and stayed with him more than a century later. Others were less so. As a younger man he had tolerated those as part of the cost of doing business — a sort of tax that all people must pay in order to take part in civilized society. When he had turned one hundred, he had decided to stop paying that tax.
Neal Stephenson: Seveneves
Insureading.
For her, the electronic books were an insurance policy of sorts. The four-day elevator ride might be nothing more than a prelude to further journeys, some of which might take her to places with little to no bandwidth, and nothing was worse than getting stuck in a situation like that with nothing to read.
Neal Stephenson: Seveneves