They wanted to carry her, but she jumped to the stones of the plaza and strode away from the building, toward her ranks, which parted to make way for her. The streets of Pudong were filled with hungry and terrified refugees, and through them, in simple peasant clothes streaked with the blood of herself and of others, broken shackles dangling from her wrists, followed by her generals and ministers, walked the barbarian Princess with her book and her sword.

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

Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.

Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us.

The full cosmos consists of the physical stuff and consciousness. Take away consciousness and it's only dust; add consciousness and you get things, ideas, and time.

See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places.

It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.