

“It doesn't matter that she shouldn't, that she never would. What matters is that she could, if she wanted. The power to hurt is a kind of wealth.”
― The Power
― The Power

“I’m a scientist! Now we’re getting somewhere! Time for me to use science. All right, genius brain: come up with something! …I’m hungry. You have failed me, brain.”
― Project Hail Mary
― Project Hail Mary

“You remain the hero of your own story even when you become the villain of someone else's.”
― The Tsar of Love and Techno
― The Tsar of Love and Techno

“We must keep in mind the story of the statistician who drowned while trying to wade across a river with an average depth of four feet.”
― Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
― Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

“But you cannot urge national political renewal on the basis of descriptions of fact. You have to describe the country in terms of what you passionately hope it will become, as well as in the terms of what you know it to be now. You have to be loyal to a dream country rather than to the one to which you wake up every morning. Unless such loyalty exists, the ideal has no chance of becoming actual.”
― Achieving Our Country
― Achieving Our Country
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