Interesting things happen along borders - transitions - not in the middle where everything is the same.
Neal StephensonA lot of secular, modern people claim to be disillusioned whenever they learn that any smart person is religious. That's applicable to Newton as it is to any other religious smart person
Neal StephensonAnd it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.
Neal StephensonThe GPS unit became almost equally obstreperous, though, over Richardโs unauthorized route change, until they finally passed over some invisible cybernetic watershed between two possible ways of getting to their destination, and it changed its fickle little mind and began calmly telling him which way to proceed as if this had been its idea all along.
Neal Stephenson