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“Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever”
Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change. Dumb animals can change only as fast as natural evolution. Human equivalent races, once on their technological run-up, hit the limits of their zone in a matter of a few thousand years. In the Transcend, superhumanity can happen so fast that its creators are destroyed. It wasn’t surprising then that the Powers themselves were evanescent.
The last twenty days have brought more income than the last two years—far more than we can verify and absorb. We’re endangered by our own success.” He made an ironic smile-frown.
There really was a Qeng Ho, you know. On Earth, a thousand years before spaceflight.
Look under the surface, Pham. I think you’ll find a whole lot of nothing.” A dream of competence, too closely confronted.
One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
look out on the universe. It does not care, and even with all our science there are some disasters that we can not avert. All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.
Half-assed programming was a time-filler that, like knitting, must date to the beginning of the human experience.
The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.”
Den Mother to one hundred and fifty-some kids … and I thought I was a librarian.
