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At Google, they eat lunch on graph paper.

The smell!" Penumbra repeats. "You know you are finished when people start talking about the smell.

Our friendship is a nebula.

I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message.

I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain," she says. "Not books.

Hadoop! I love the sound of it. Kat Potente, you and I will have a son, and we will name him Hadoop, and he will be a great warrior, a king!

Why do you love books so much?

We were looking at the sequence, not the shape.

This is no library. This is the Batcave.

Its a museum's job to keep things for posterity,"Tabitha sniffs. "We have a temperature-controlled storage unit full of Christmas sweaters.

We need James Bond with a library science degree.

Once told, stories take on a life of their own.

Our friendship is a nebula. Now

What do you seek in these shelves?

That's almost cute: Don't forget your ruler on your first day at cult! But where is 'down below'?

The way he says it, I can hear the capital letters.

This sounds very interesting to me, but mostly because this girl is very interesting to me.

If this sounds impressive to you, you're over thirty.

But when people are past a certain age, you sort of stop asking them why they do things. It feels dangerous.

At first I thought I had a crush on her, but then I realized she's an android.

But Ruby, my language of choice since NewBagel, was invented by a cheerful Japanese programmer, and it reads like friendly, accessible poetry.

He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND.

The outer perimeter of the facility is like a highway; this must be where all the popular artifacts hang out.

America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

Maybe his big build isn't a linebacker's after all; maybe it's a librarian's.

He's like a storybook spirit, a little djinn or something, except instead of air or water his element is imagination.

Sometimes, you're stuck with a system too complicated to model completely.

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care.

My name is Clay Jannon and those were the days when I rarely touched paper.

Immortality in a book-lined catacomb down beneath the surface of the earth, or death up here, with all this? I'll take death and a kebab.

Magic is not the only power in this world.

Penumbra [...] produces another e-reader - it's a Nook. Then another one, a Sony. Another one, marked KOBO. Really? Who has a Kobo?

Go deeper. More iterations. Don't hold back.

It's not like we have the same brains as people a thousand years ago."
Wait: "Yes we do."
"We have the same hardware, but not the same software.

I sip something called the Blue Screen of Death, which is in fact neon-blue, with a bright LED winking inside one of the ice cubes.

The thinnest tendrils of dawn are creeping in from the east. People in New York are softly starting to tweet.

Of course, of course. Drugs, music, a new age dawning ... and you came for an old book.

None of this represented the glorious next stage of human evolution, but I was learning things. I was moving up.

I feel crazy, but in a good way.

Oh, I am very familiar with the internal monologue.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines
it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

Penumbra's cult runs on egregious licensing fees

Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage.

Hello, nice to meet you, I sell unreadable books to weird old people - want to get dinner?

I loved The Chronicles of Narnia. I loved The Chronicles of Prydain. Basically, 'Chronicles of' - I was in!

Thank you, Teobaldo. You are my greatest friend. This has been the key to everything.

he saw that Gerritszoon was a searcher, too.

Kat bought a New York Times but couldn't figure out how to operate it, so now she's fiddling with her phone.

I see it now. You cheated - would that be fair to say? And as a result, you have no idea what you have accomplished.

Neel's model might match the store's volume but never its density

Stuff that used to be hard just isn't hard anymore!

At best, the fellowship is founded on a false hope, and at worst, it's founded on a lie.

Girl Talk, produced by Andy Warhol.

All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

But down below, Penumbra is shouting, "Lean, my boy! Lean!"
And wow, do I ever want this job.

They are developing a form of renewable energy that runs on hubris.

It turns out Dungeons & Dragons is much better on paper than it is in reality.

I feel a little whirl of dislocation
the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected

There are plenty of people who, you know - people who still like the smell of books.

People want things to be real. If you give them an excuse, they'll believe you.

Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work.

This is Mat's secret weapon, his passport, his get-out-of-jail-free card: Mat makes things that are beautiful.

Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.

Yes, everyone else is smart, everyone else is cool, everyone else is healthy and attractive - but she brought you.

It is very quiet. I set my chin into my palm and count my friends and wonder what else is hiding in plain sight.

But I think the writers had their turn," she says, "and now it's programmers who get to upgrade the human operating system.

I for one welcome our new android overlords.

Books: boring. Codes: awesome. These are the people who are running the internet.

Typographers are designers; designers are my people.

I will admit that I just want an excuse to put all my favorite people in a room together.

The whole economy suddenly felt like a game of musical chairs, and I was convinced I needed to grab a seat, any seat, as fast as I could.

Let me give you some advice: make friends with a millionaire when he's a friendless sixth-grader.

Don't forget your ruler on your first day of cult!

Rosemary, why do you love books so much?"
( ... )
"Well, actually, I love books because books are my best friends.

Ometimes discipline is the truest form of kindness.

The suburban mind cannot comprehend the emergent complexity of a New York sidewalk.

A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we're penciling it in for a Friday morning.

We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment.

I didn't realize wizards were going to walk among us and we'd just call them Googlers.

This cult seems like it might have been designed specifically to prey on bookish old people - Scientology for scholarly seniors.

The measure of a bookstore is not its receipts, but its friends," he says, "and here, we are rich indeed.

San Francisco is a good place for walks if your legs are strong.

Why do organizations need to mark everything with their insignia? It's like a dog peeing on every tree. Google is the same way. So was NewBagel. Using

(about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor!

I'm sorry, but I just don't believe in your ... religion,

To tell you the truth, I hate audiobooks.
But an audiobook is like a fizzy knit cap pulled down over your -

Its circumference was tiny, but he had a life, and he would not give it up.