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Actually, she liked Ellis, as much as she liked any surgeon. She regarded surgeons as flagrantly action-oriented men (they were almost always men, which she found significant) desperate to do something, to take some physical action.
It annoyed her that she should be the only woman, and it annoyed her that the men should become quieter, more polite, less jovial and raucous. She didn’t give a damn if they were raucous, and she resented being made to feel like an intruder. It seemed to her that she had been an intruder all her life, even when she was very young.
It began as a project called Form Quixoticus,
You could pack a billion nerve cells into one cubic inch. No human miniaturization method would ever achieve that economy of space. Nor would any human method ever produce a unit that operated on so little power as a nerve cell.
“I wouldn’t like Minnesota,” he said. “It’s too cold.” “But it’s a good school.” “Oh, yes. A good school.” He sighed. “A fine school.” She felt sorry for him,
The truth was that everybody’s mind was controlled, and everybody was glad for it. The most powerful mind controllers in the world were parents, and they did the most damage. Theorists usually forgot that nobody was born prejudiced, neurotic, or hung-up; those traits required a helping hand.
All the important programming was finished by the age of seven.