Knowing where the trap is-- that's the first step in evading it.
The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.
The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche.
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.
To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.