Beneath Hemlock Skies Quotes

“Why’d you follow him?” Jack asked. “Do I need a reason?” Jack smiled tightly. “Humor me.” “Because he was in my territory,” Wendell said, suddenly serious. “These are my woods, even the ones that ain’t legally mine.”
― D.D. Black, Beneath Hemlock Skies

“Even when someone is messing up, until they’re off your team, they’re on it. You trust them because the uniform says you do.”
― D.D. Black, Beneath Hemlock Skies

“The Glial Cell Activity Index tracks supportive brain cells that persist after neurons cease firing,” he continued. “These cells maintain metabolic processes even after what we conventionally define as death. By monitoring their deterioration pattern, we can potentially identify the precise biological threshold between life and death.”
― D.D. Black, Beneath Hemlock Skies

“Theta waves are neural oscillations associated with states between wakefulness and sleep.”
― D.D. Black, Beneath Hemlock Skies

“Correlation isn’t causation,”
― D.D. Black, Beneath Hemlock Skies

“Decimal points can’t simply vanish into the digital ether, surely?” “They do when someone builds hidden backdoors into the accounting software.” Violet grinned. “These corporate types create system modifications that siphon small percentages from large contracts—amounts too small for automatic audits but significant when aggregated across hundreds of transactions.”
― D.D. Black, Beneath Hemlock Skies

“Bureaucracy,” Fitz said, “is civilization’s most reliable impediment to progress.”
― D.D. Black, Beneath Hemlock Skies

“Yerkes-Dodson law. Optimal performance often occurs under stress. Too little, and we stagnate. But too much...”
― D.D. Black, Beneath Hemlock Skies