Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent protection.
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Related This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS People see what they want to see SUSAN BETH PFEFFER It was fortunate to have that restart. My car was probably the best it had been, and his car was pro... RYAN NEWMAN That was definitely a bummer. At least we worked hard. We knew we didn't have as much talent as year... LISA HELMERS I had thought about changing my mind before we knew which coach was coming in. But as soon as I hear... DALILA ESHE Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA It was as if all my life had been spent fighting, killing and running. I wanted peace but I knew it ... FREDRIK NATH I knew as soon as the whistle was blown that Dwayne was going to run over and get it or wrestle it o... DOMINIC KINNEAR I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, ... GALE GORDON To this day, I'm not upset that I had cancer. I almost knew I had it before I received the call. I w... STACEY SIMCIK Years ago, that's how it was done. Guys came up as relievers and worked their way into being starter... BUCK SHOWALTER They were as astounded as we were at how isolated it was. As far as they knew, neither of their clan... BRUCE BEEHLER As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown ... JOSH MCDOWELL I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possib... JAMES R. COOK I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possi... JAMES R. COOK I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possib... JOSEPH CONRAD Terry worked hard in the business, and in his day, he was a very good worker who could work a gimmic... JJ DILLON I knew it was gone as soon as I hit it. ADAM WITTER As soon as I hit it I knew it was perfect. ROBERT ALLENBY As soon as I saw the tackle I knew it was a serious injury. LUCIANO SPALLETTI When she actually installed her design, it was not what we had as an organization or a committee app... KAREN OWEN Adam was the only man who, when saying a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him. MARK TWAIN I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out... MARK ZUCKERBERG We've worked all week telling them the game was never over until the last tick. Cortez has been the ... BILLY MITCHELL As soon as I saw the name on the postcard I knew who it was. You could've knocked me over with a fea... BILLY HENNING I knew that as soon as I touched it, I was going to shoot it. Once I released it, I knew it was good... ARCHIE MIAWAY As far as I knew, he had never taken a photograph before, and the summit of Everest was hardly the p... EDMUND HILLARY AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER. Terry took Death's arm and followed him through the ... RHIANNA PRATCHETT It has been held to the principles of what Terry wanted. So 25 years is probably just the beginning. ISADORE SHARP As soon as we won we just knew exactly who was going to what ladder [to take down the nets] and just... MICHELLE FERRY I've never been a part of anything like that before. As a player you're told not to mention it. Befo... TED WILLIAMS When he let it go, I knew it was good, he knew it was good and I think the whole entire Clemente Cen... BILLY MIMS The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that deat... FELIX ROHATYN Sir Terry Pratchett - he was knighted in 2009, and on him it looked earned rather than entitled - wr... NICK HARKAWAY He was probably one of the most hard-working, caring people you'd ever meet. He had a great degree o... BOB MCDONALD Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had bee... LOUIS L'AMOUR This sense of absence had been growing ... It was wearing into him. Last night he had woken besides ... IAN MCEWAN After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jere... MICHELANGELO I knew that one was in as soon as it left my hand. BRETT ROSS Shane was sitting right outside the bar watching. But as soon as he took off I knew something was wr... GARY ROOT I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven yea... BRYAN ROBSON As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I... TOM ARAYA When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always though... ROBIN WILLIAMS How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity... GRAHAM GREENE Terry was conscious of all those things and wanted to tell the story as he had read it in the histor... COLIN FARRELL He'd once known a man who said that life hinged on the moment, that everything changed in the blink ... DEREK LANDY I knew it was bad as soon as it happened. It hurt and swelled up right away. JULIE BRIODY I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had n... MARK TWAIN I knew as soon as I got that second foul I had basically just taken myself out of the game. It was a... EREK HANSEN The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it ha... JACKIE ROBINSON He basically has a patent on that type of performance. He's done a great job as a both a closer and ... DAN CALLAHAN 'Sleepless' was a script that had been written by three or four other writers before me, and... NORA EPHRON As soon as Mr. Prosser realized that he was substantially the loser after all, it was as if a weight... DOUGLAS ADAMS As far as the patent process and how long it takes to patent something, this is a story that is not ... MIKE GOODMAN As soon as I was old enough to understand what it was, I liked fishing. I started tournament bass fi... ANTHONY GAGLIARDI In spite of all the refinements of society that conspired to make art – the dizzying perfection of... ANNE RICE In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art - the dizzying perfection... ANNE RICE I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I knew when I got the assignment it was going to be an emotional thing, ... We had feelings, but we ... PAUL TIBBETS It's been a long time (that none of the teams was in the Top 5 of the polls). It's probably almost 2... BOBBY BOWDEN I promise you, every insurgent, freedom fighter, and stray gunman in Iraq who we arrested knew the r... MARCUS LUTTRELL When I came out of the apartment Steve was, um -- I had him in a chair. As soon as I opened the door... JOYCE HOLLIMAN I knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman. DELTA GOODREM Personally speaking, growing up as a gay man before it was as socially acceptable as it is now, I kn... JOHN LOGAN The study was completed and it indicated a full signal was warranted. We certainly will be looking t... MARLA FANNIN The quality of American patents has been deteriorating for years; they are increasingly issued for p... ROBERT POZEN The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER I'm probably the only guy who worked for Stengel before and after he was a genius. WARREN SPAHN It was an emotional rollercoaster. We had that hope one time and then the next time we had bad news.... JUDY SHACKELFORD I don't know how it happened. Through the din of the crowd, I heard this tiny scream. As small and d... TESS OLIVER I just connected and knew I had a good piece of the ball as soon as it left my bat. AMBER HALL There is reason to believe that her death was a setback for his health. It was probably the last str... HANS KNOETZE Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is
the man who disagr... AYN RAND Supporting the definition of marriage as one man and one woman is not anti-gay: it is pro-traditiona... MARCO RUBIO I knew I was shot. Didn't know how bad it was. You know, in a weird way, your body kind of goes ... STEVE SCALISE She loved him, even though it was so hard to love anybody else after loving my dad. I think I knew t... MARGARET MCMULLAN As soon as Andy played that opening lick, the crowd went bananas. Everyone was screaming and singing... WILL SMITH Lamar has always made a lot of big shots in his career. He is a great shooter and he knows how to ma... MICHAEL TELLER They will probably commence work on phase one as soon as they can. That's what they started last Sep... HEATHER SMITH It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another... NICOLE KRAUSS The point is as soon as it was discovered, it was taken care of immediately. MEG LAUERMAN I was hoping I was going to be back as soon as possible. Then they told me, before I got the MRI res... STEVE YOUNG Now that’s what I call magic—seein’ all that, dealin’ with all that, and still goin’ on. I... TERRY PRATCHETT It's going just as well as it was last year, and the years past, LISA DANIELS I was affected because I was thinking how I had worked so many years for that. I was thinking to mys... MEGHAN RYAN I think the project was not as much of his talent as Terry came from an environment in Omaha where s... DAVE GOTTSLEBEN I had no idea. It was so hard waiting (before the awards ceremony). It was really suspenseful this y... HANNAH NOEL For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear a... SUZANNE COLLINS I now say that the oldest man living never heard of the president of a great nation to come down to ... DAVY CROCKETT He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method... DOUGLAS ADAMS It was probably our best defensive effort we've had all season. The energy level has been there befo... JASON KERR It's nothing like on TV, ... On the way down there we knew we had no idea what it was going to be li... CHRIS WHITE How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before. MARK TWAIN My pitch count as a general rule was 135. And I knew how many pitches I had when I went to the mound... TOM SEAVER I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, no... C.S. LEWIS As soon as the ball hit the bat I was going. I was lucky it was a chopper. I just ran and hoped to G... JOEY GATHRIGHT Under the greenwood tree, Who loves to lie with me And tune his merry note, Unto the ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She'd been beaten, tortured. I knew I had to give her a chance. JENNIFER MCKINNON Tanith frowned. Did people still go on DATES any more? She was sure they did. They probably called i... DEREK LANDY
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TERRY PRATCHETT The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from... TERRY PRATCHETT Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves ... TERRY PRATCHETT The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who t... TERRY PRATCHETT I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said i... TERRY PRATCHETT In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. TERRY PRATCHETT No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head ... TERRY PRATCHETT Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a w... TERRY PRATCHETT At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings a... TERRY PRATCHETT Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken. TERRY PRATCHETT I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of ... TERRY PRATCHETT The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valle... TERRY PRATCHETT She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their ... TERRY PRATCHETT His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability wh... TERRY PRATCHETT Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded ... TERRY PRATCHETT Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they're lords of creation. Not like us cats. We ... TERRY PRATCHETT The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last ... TERRY PRATCHETT Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page. TERRY PRATCHETT Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect. TERRY PRATCHETT The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes af... TERRY PRATCHETT Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I ... TERRY PRATCHETT It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying iso... TERRY PRATCHETT Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be ... TERRY PRATCHETT Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantasti... TERRY PRATCHETT Rincewind had been told that death was just like going into another room. The difference is, when yo... TERRY PRATCHETT The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf ... TERRY PRATCHETT Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves ar... TERRY PRATCHETT "Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It is contrary... TERRY PRATCHETT A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. TERRY PRATCHETT Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and ... TERRY PRATCHETT It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If ... TERRY PRATCHETT It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence coul... TERRY PRATCHETT An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs ... TERRY PRATCHETT A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. TERRY PRATCHETT Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate... TERRY PRATCHETT The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then... TERRY PRATCHETT For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) ... TERRY PRATCHETT Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his l... TERRY PRATCHETT In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded. TERRY PRATCHETT Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off. TERRY PRATCHETT The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. TERRY PRATCHETT God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which migh... TERRY PRATCHETT