She and her hosts could not understand one another until Hopper remembered some COBOL commands. MOVE, she said, pointing to herself. GOTO Osaka Hotel. The Japanese immediately understood and delivered her to her lodging.

Sharks are not unpredictable; for the most part, they do exactly what an apex predator is expected to do.

3 quindecillion, 657 quattuordecillion, 262 tredecillion; which is to say the figures 3,657,262 followed by 42 ciphers. Operators of the key punch machines transfer a code symbol from the Census ….

Many executions by the military rebels were given a veneer of pseudo-legality by trials, although they were effectively little different from extra-judicial murder.