The world is full of power and energy and a person can go far by just skimming off a tiny bit of it. - Neal Stephenson

Gold is the corpse of value...

<nowiki>[Luisa]</nowiki> knew how to use her own ignorance as an icebreaker in conversations. Izzy was full of people who were skewed toward the Asperger’s end of the social spectrum, and there was no better way to get them to start talking than to ask them a technical question.

The cat, morbidly obese from eating virtually all of Isaac’s meals, fell off the table like a four-legged haggis, and trudged away.