"On the way out of school, after the final class of the day, Steve slipped clandestinely up behind Tommy in the doorway. "Don't let them drek you," he whispered fiercely. "You scan me? Don't let them drek you. I mean it, maximum. They're a bunch of scup-tell 'em to scag theirselves, hear?" But he quickly walked away from Tommy when they were outside the building, and didn't look at him again."
- Gardner Dozois, "Chains of the Sea"
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"One of the goals of this alternate way of carving up the world is to better understand how the certainty of our material world arises from the randomness of quantum theory, and how an unfeeling universe gave rise to creatures like us, who feed so voraciously on information."
- George Johnson, "Fire in the Mind"
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