The point is, the Grand Families see how much support you have, and they know you want to instigate change. Change for them, a return to more democratic rule, the introduction of accountability, will...
The biggest victory they can have is to change our lives. I am going to carry on exactly as before. Anything else is allowing them to win.
Secrecy is like oxygen to politicians and defense forces; there’s always got to be some of it to keep them going.
It is the epitome of entropy, the final enemy of all things.
How you humans survive so much experience is something I shall never understand. To do so much and react to it all in the way you do is as much a curse as a blessing. You never take time to digest and...
Horatius
Astrophysics, do we know what's causing that?No, sir, Bruno said cheerfully. Not a clue.
Several tech-types; heavily idealistic about total access they all sailed close to anarchistic beliefs, believing all information should be free.
His reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer.
Age was a truly cumulative thing, bringing a degree of wisdom to life.
You are so much smarter than me, aren’t you? No. I just think things through quicker, that’s all. If that’s not a definition of smart, I don’t know what is.
Yet, in the end, entropy will always emerge victorious, snuffing out the very last glimmer of heat and light. After that there is only darkness. When that state is reached even eternity will cease to...
There it was, plain and beautifully simple, five generations down the line. :)
Perfection, Inigo said, is what we strive for; it is never what we should achieve. There is no such thing as utopia. Life by its nature is a struggle. Take that away and you take away any reason to ex...
Out of twinkling stardust all came, into dark matter all will fall. Death mocks us as we laugh defiance at entropy, yet ignorance birthed mortals sail forth upon time’s cruel sea.
It took eight generations of cousins marrying to produce you
Interpretation though the filters of ideology has always been one of our race’s curses.
I used to be like that once. I never gave anybody a second chance. It’s a very sad way to live your life. Do you believe the dragons should provide patternform technology to humans? Yes, I do. Denise...
How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel?We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.
We exist to protect the majority so they can run around living their lives as decently and as best they can.