All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us.

The sight of the bare katana inspires everyone to a practically Nipponese level of politeness

Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.

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

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.

The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation of a few nerds with slide rulers - It's the only way for the human race to escape from its current predicaments - Too bad we've forgotten how to do it

How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How could you tell?