"John DeChancie - Skyway 3 - Paradox Alley" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dechancie John)

it mayтАФand by the life of me, it very well mayтАФwe say yes,
by gosh, let us by all means go to the fortress of this Prime
fellow and ask him to put his two cents into the bargain as
well!" He smiled sheepishly. "If you get what I am meaning."



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"I get what you are meaning," I said. "Who else? Sean?
Liam?"

"I'm hungry," Sean said. "Let's go and eat."

"He's always hungry," Liam said, "but count me in, too."

"I'm bored," Roland said. "Let's get moving."

"Sam?" I said.

"Oh, I have a vote?"

"Sam, you always have at least a kilocredit's worth to put
in," Susan said, "and you know it."

"Thank you, m'am. What I say is, I'd be wary of this
Prime dude."

I waited for more, then: "That's it?"

"Yup. I guess you have change coming, Suzie."

"Oh, come on, Sam," I said. "Spill it."

"Nothing to spill. I'm a computer, remember? Give me
data to analyze, numbers to crunch, I'll give you a readout.
But don't ask me to make anything out of recent events. It's
all too crazy for me. Emerald cities, fairy castles, crazy
planets, some guy who thinks he's God... Forget it, I'm
shutting down. Wake me when it's over."

"Oh, come off it," I said. "Every time you're put on the
spot you go into that 'I'm just a computer' routine."

"Seriously, I think this is a human-judgment situation. It
calls for acting on a hunch, an intuition, a feeling in your
belly. Computers don't have bellies to get feelings in, boys
and girls."