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...
[sic] his reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer.
The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.
Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling.
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...
From small foundations of hope, empires can be built.
Universal law: data wants to be free.
Their electronics are still back in the Stone Age.
Start taking money away from the privileged, and they can turn just as savage as any animal that gets shoved into Philippa’s arena.
Politicians see conspiracies everywhere
Only people with one short life want to go tearing out into the great unknown with nothing more than a flashlight and a stick to poke the rattlers with.
But then, ephemerality was the summation of most human activities. The trick was to enjoy the time when things were going right.
They know what we're planning, and we know what they're planning. But they don't know we know.
Always trust in proven survivors.
Forty-two. Excuse me? I queried. Old joke, the cardinal admitted. The number of angels that can actually dance on a pinhead.
Weapons analysis division,
Think of it as an eight-dimensional onion.’ Justine straightened her back and gave her father an exasperated look. ‘Thanks, Dad. That’s helpful. I always think in those terms, it really helps a lot.
Killed fifteen men when I was in combat. Yeah, he was a nurse. Couldn’t read the label on the medicine bottle.
Weapons science was always kept very close to the government’s chest, receiving the most funds and the least publicity.
People will look at you, what you’re doing, rewriting the regiment rule book, and they’ll want to do the same for themselves. That’s when you’ll start to run into resistance. That’s where the politics...
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