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41 " People don’t want the truth, not really. They want safe lives and nice electronics and full fridges.” He "
― Marcus Sakey , Brilliance (Brilliance Saga, #1)
42 " People don’t want the truth, not really. They want safe lives and nice electronics and full fridges. "
43 " channels were "
44 " He’d chased Vasquez for nine days now. Someone had warned the programmer just before Cooper got to the Boston walk-up, a brick rectangle where the only light had been a window onto an airshaft and the glowing red eyes of power indicators on computers and routers and surge protectors. The desk chair had been against the far wall as if someone had leaped out of it, and steam still rose from an abandoned bowl of ramen. "
45 " Cooper pulled out a high-backed stool, sat down, tapped out the beat on the bar with his fingertips. He’d heard once that the essence of country music was three chords and the truth. Well, the three-chords part still stands. "
46 " They were innocent people. They could just do things you couldn’t imagine. I can see code, do you get it? Algorithms that confound straights are just patterns to me. They come in my dreams. I dream the most beautiful programs never written. "
47 " Our daughter is not going to an academy.” I MISS MY SON, her sign had read. “Period. I don’t care if she’s tier one. I don’t care if she’s the first tier zero in history and can manipulate space-time while shooting lasers from her belly button. She is not going to an academy. "
48 " A gunfight in a graveyard, Jesus Christ. "
49 " It’s easy. Everybody else on the field, they look where the opposing line is. I look where they’re going to be. Then I just head somewhere else.” —BARRY ADAMS, RUNNING BACK FOR THE CHICAGO BEARS, ON HOW HE WAS ABLE TO RUSH 2,437 YARDS IN A SINGLE SEASON, SHATTERING THE PREVIOUS RECORD (2,105, BY ERIC DICKERSON IN 1984) "
50 " of exchange, one that would be impervious to the gamesmanship of gifted individuals. By functioning as an auction house and averaging the bids to arrive at a final price, "
51 " The more we fear, the more we need them. And the more we need them, the more powerful they get. "
52 " the queasy purple of light pollution was lonelier than night. "
53 " know Lee and Lisa. But you did. "
54 " Roger, I don’t know what your problem is. I don’t know if it’s a personal grudge, or ambition, or if you just need to get laid. But we have a fundamental difference of opinion on what our mission is. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go do my actual, legal job.” He started away. "
55 " A nightmare. What should have been a quiet little operation was now looping on CNN. Drew Peters had immediately played the national-security card, shutting down any connection to the DAR. There had been a half a dozen bombings this year alone, mostly by abnorm-rights fringe groups, and for now, it was easy enough to pass this off as just another one. But a bomb going off in Washington, DC, half a mile from the White House? That would get more attention. Chances were someone would dig up the DAR’s involvement. "
56 " hotels and trinket shops and storefront museums and all "
57 " either. Maybe, like him, she was both a pro and a person, both a job and a life. Had it been a mistake not to include her? Until her, Cooper had never worked with anyone who could match him. And she would be a huge asset if he had to sneak into… "
58 " What was the phrase the Irish used? You want to make God laugh, you make a plan. "
59 " Something boring, so no one asks follow-up questions about it.” “Accounting? "
60 " Good news, bad news. "