With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.

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Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan.

Even mocking people helped their face stats. In the reputation economy, the only real way to hurt anyone was to ignore them completely. And it was pretty hard to ignore someone who made your blood boil.

I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are blobjects.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Have a little faith in me, Volger." "I have great faith, tempered with vast annoyance.