That led him and Mr. Rossmann, a former Apple executive who has started many Silicon Valley companies, to pursue the possibility of creating an appliancelike computer tailored to consumers who have no computer expertise.

Sitting on a trashbox at a coiner was an old man in rags, and Carleton forced his shoulders back in a gesture of contempt for this old bastard — he would never be like that.

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Marjorie caught it in her hand, where it lay palpitating distressedly; and thrusting her arm through a broken pane of glass, allowed the creature to escape.