[sic] his reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer.
Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling.
The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.
Universal law: data wants to be free.
Always trust in proven survivors.
Politicians see conspiracies everywhere
He had used drugs and nanonic supplements to compensate at first, then supplements became replacements, with bones exchanged for carbon-fibre struts. Electrical consumption supplanted food intake. The...
Weapons analysis division,
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. - Tochee
Their electronics are still back in the Stone Age.
I sailed upon oceans, and I thought no challenge could be greater, and now men sail the void between stars. Oh, how I remember them. The constellations burning so bright at night. How could I ever hav...
From small foundations of hope, empires can be built.
I grew up on a farm, Ayanna protested. We worked the land. She pulled a face. Well, I helped Dad program the agribots.
Knowledge is a true power in any society
This is the age of total digitalisation; everything is online always.''Uh huh, and that's why our politicians are pure and clean, and the world works so well, is it? Because everybody knows everything...
Rationalize that as something else
They know what we're planning, and we know what they're planning. But they don't know we know.
Start taking money away from the privileged, and they can turn just as savage as any animal that gets shoved into Philippa’s arena.
Like the original concept, the stormrider had rectangular blades, sixteen of them radiating out from the hub, each one a flat lattice of struts twenty-five kilometers long, made from the toughest stee...
Ideology is a sick-soul-meme; it gnaws basic decency away until you can self-justify the most extreme acts as worthwhile to further the cause. Any cause.