Liza

“there is something even higher than the justice which you have been filled with. There is a human impulse known as mercy; a human act known as forgiveness.” “I am not acquainted with those words, partner Elijah.” “I know,” muttered Baley. “I know.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel

“the value of a game is in abstraction. Many Nirai go in for simulationist approaches, a tendency you share, but sometimes you learn more by throwing details out than coding them all in. You want to get rid of everything nonessential, cook it down to its simplest possible form.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit

“it was A. Petrosyants who in a press conference in Moscow on 6 May 1986, commenting on the Chernobyl tragedy, uttered these words, which astounded many: "Science requires sacrifices.”
― Grigori Medvedev, Chernobyl Notebook

“Precautionary measure. With those words any deaths could be justified. Better to destroy your own people than there be a chance a German soldier might find a loaf of bread.”
― Tom Rob Smith, Child 44