"A veritable piata of a book, which when smashed by the reader's enthusiastic attention, showers upon him everything from the history of useless roulette systems to the latest developments in chaos theory." --The New York Times "An astonishing and fascinating tale of scientific heroism." --Richard Dawkins   "Bass has done the best job so far of capturing the marriage of technical imagination and the communal coziness that gave birth to Silicon Valley." --Los Angeles Times.