This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.

Jad said, "The leakage was forcing choices, the making of which in no way improved matters." Okay. So we were, in effect, locked in a room with a madman sorcerer. That clarified things a little.

Interesting things happen along borders - transitions - not in the middle where everything is the same.

That's funny because if anyone actually did prove the existence of God we'd just tell him 'nice proof, Fraa Bly' and start believing in God.

Wired people should know something about wires.

I think that this vein is close to being mined out already, but I'll say that my knowledge of and talent for linguistics are quite limited and I'm not aware of being a hell of a lot more interested in that topic than I am in others.