Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey.

a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

What am I now, Alai?" "Still good." "At what?" "At--anything. There's a million soldiers who'd follow you to the end of the universe." "I don't want to go to the end of the universe." "So where do you want to go? They'll follow you." I want to go home, thought Ender, but I don't know where it is.

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.

'So if we can we'll kill every last of the buggers, and if they can they'll kill every last one of us. As for me,' said Ender, 'I'm in favor of surviving'.

I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.

Unfortunately, we live in a time when the media are almost a monoculture.