A classic returns!
I'll start, putting it in a spoiler tag, in case Harlan Ellison is on your to-read list:
This book is short and it's not my most favorite thing in the world, but I like this quote because, it sure makes you go "woah" (and to me, that's the only criteria for good writing).
I'll start, putting it in a spoiler tag, in case Harlan Ellison is on your to-read list:
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"Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If the word 'hate' was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant. For you. Hate. Hate."
- The supercomputer Am, from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
- The supercomputer Am, from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
This book is short and it's not my most favorite thing in the world, but I like this quote because, it sure makes you go "woah" (and to me, that's the only criteria for good writing).
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