Stepping through an Aperture Science portal was like stepping through an open door, like simply stepping forward as you generally would ( Read more... )

It paid to remember that an experiment that didn't go the way you expected was not necessarily a failure. That having a hypothesis disproved or a calculation revealed as off-the-mark -- not that the latter often happened to him -- was valuable in itself, provided its own way forward, its own set of data ( Read more... )

There were a lot of good reasons not to trust Aperture Science technology further than he could throw it. Less, in fact, because they made pretty lightweight tech, and even without the armor he could probably toss it reasonably far. And was frequently tempted to; this tech had cost them a good man. That was the first reason ( Read more... )