As soon as she had smiled her face altered again, and the petulant expression peregrine to her features took control.

His was the genuine Celtic temperament—poetic, excitable, emotionable, unreasoning.

Programming can be considered as being similar to writing instructions for a girl who is working with a desk calculator. The analogy becomes exact if you assume that such a computress has the virtues of being very quick, of never making mistakes, and following instructions perfectly—and that she has the glaring defect of being incapable of thinking.

Penis worms today use their hydrostatic skeletons to make burrows with a distinctive shape, and paleontologists have discovered similar shapes in rocks 542 million years old.