"The familiar creek of the stairs [going up to the therapist's office] was enough to unleash a flood of old sensations. Sometimes he had found it almost impossible to drag himself to the top; on the worst days he had felt like a man without oxygen trying to climb Everest. Depression wasn't the word for it; burial was more accurate--entombment in a thick, concrete, cold chamber, beyond the reach of light or sound." 203
...she [Gabrielle, Hoffman's wife] noticed an old computer in a glass case. When she went closer, she read that it was the NeXT processor [a server] that had started the World Wide Web at CERN in 1991...."Pandora's Box," said a voice behind her...Or the Law of Unintended Consequences. You start off trying to create the origins of the universe and you end up creating eBay." 211
"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow." Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
"And like all the best lies, it has the merit of being almost true" (Quarry)
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