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thirty billion people on the overcrowded Earth,
that scream of overcompensating for tiny, tiny penises, but might prove useful.
From people taking stupid risks to people taking stupid risks.
rail gun pushed the whole ship backward in a solid mathematical relationship to the mass of the two-kilo tungsten round moving at a measurable fraction of c. Newton’s third law expressed as violence.
Situations change and clinging too tightly to what came before kills you.
cultivated her with a grand vision and small steps.
The Martian designers had made the ship so that people could be alone or else together. It took a Belter to make space to be alone together.
“The magic word is oops,” she said. And then a moment later, “Oops.”
“I always thought that if you gave people all the information, they’d do the right thing, you know? Not always, maybe, but usually. More often than when they chose to do the wrong thing anyway.”
hope he knows what he’s doing, trusting delicate work like this to agents of chaos like us.”
Just a drop in the bucket, I know, but that’s how buckets get filled.”
“The pajama party.” Fred winced. “I wish you wouldn’t call it that.” “Sorry. I just like the visual. Your very serious meeting of OPA leaders.”
She wanted to win, to protect her tribe and wipe the enemy into a paste of blood and dismay.
a man who’s feeling like he lost face, yeah? He’ll say things he doesn’t mean because of it. Do things he doesn’t mean.”
History itself was a massive n=1 study, irreproducible.
The sorts of things people said because they weren’t true.
The universe was filled with mysteries and beauty and awe, and all that they could manage to do with it was this.
Not with her, but not not with her either.
by admitting our free will we arrive at absurdity, while by admitting our dependence on the external world, on time, and on cause, we arrive at laws.”
