With swelling breast, he placed a foot upon the body of his powerful enemy, and throwing back his fine young head, roared out the awful challenge of the victorious bull ape.

The forest echoed to the savage and triumphant paean ( Read more... )

( Steve Rogers )

[Holmes yanks the trigger device from a large container of explosives ( Read more... )

"You have a master plan?"

"I'm a mad scientist, aren't I? We all have master plans. Otherwise, we'd just be faintly disgruntled scientists who think we really ought to form a committee to discuss our grievances."

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Wrecan: Now get on your flying boat and stop a crazy dwarf vampire ( Read more... )

Quentin: You know what? Screw it. It's only the alumni interview. Julia: Right. Quentin: And it's only Yale. Julia: Right -- lesser Ivy. Quentin: And honestly, they'd probably take anyone conscious for philosophy. Julia: For philosophy, conscious is a detriment. Quentin: So I'm good. Julia: You're great.
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( on architecture and old haunts )

"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"

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Paige: Hold on. You're just accepting two planes going down ( Read more... )

Here are some signs that you’re working with a punk rock language:
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• Inspires disdain, disgust, or outright hatred from people smart enough to know -- Any idiot with a Slashdot handle can talk crap about anything. It’s when you piss off the smart developers that you know you’re working with something interesting.

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A project called Google Brain, begun in 2011, had a million neurons and a billion connections. (After perusing 10 million images from YouTube, Google Brain concluded that the Internet is full of cats.)

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