"FWLS65" - читать интересную книгу автора (A Future We'd Like to See)

"It is. Just... not that stuff. He wants us to understand
him as a person, not a slew of theories and formulas."

"Bingo!" Filbert said. "That's the key. You understand me
fully, you'll be able to understand the secret of immortality.
That's why the pop quiz, yousee."

"What good is it without the data?" Martin asked. "How does
he expect to pass his knowledge down after death if he doesn't
give up his techniques for modifying the human body?"

"He didn't really care for his work, from what I'm reading,"
I said. "Look here. He says he didn't get why the doctor was so
amazed at his heart transplant. He didn't think it was
important. But then he goes on for three pages about later that
night when the doctor took him for a celebratory night on the
town, the doc got smashed and talked about his dead dog for five
hours."

"How boring," Martin said.

"It's a good read. This guy's pretty normal, just like you
and me, but he knows where the esophagus is supposed to go and
stuff."

"I was quite good at it, I think," Filbert said. "Though
you're right, people are more important."

"Why is that?" I asked, turning away from the screen. "I
mean, you know I dig impact waves, and you made a lot of them and
didn't seem to mind. You like to tell stories about people and
places and things, not techniques and success."

"Impact waves are subjective. What one man values, another
will think is yesterday's dried up turds. Why do you think that
success has to be in your job?"

"Isn't it?" I asked. "I mean, look at William Doors. He's
the most successful man alive, man, he made waves that'll last
for eons and eons. He's practically immortal that way."

"So he made some programs," Filbert said. "What do you know
of him as a person? What's his favorite ice cream flavor? Did
he cry when Old Yeller died? Does he like sex nasty or nice?"

"I don't know."

"And neither do I. Facts and figures yes, somewhere in my
autobiography, but I never had much of a feeling for William