"Story of my life. I wasted nearly a decade before I realized that life is not a game and there are no save points or …"

"Privacy is a luxury; to buy it you need to be able to buy space and fit locks, to switch off the phone and live witho…"

"See? Interstellar colonization is easy! You just need to devote a visible percentage of the resource of an entire int…"

"It turns out you left something rather important off your career plan: for example, there’s no ticky-box on the diagr…"

"Mo used to be a troubleshooter: whenever the organization had a spot of trouble she shot it until it stopped twitching."

"The unspoken ideology of capitalism didn’t admit, back then, of any corporate duty beyond making a return on investme…"

"A current generation smartphone is more powerful than a 1991 supercomputer."

"Let me give you a handle on that. Say the distance between the Earth and the sun is, oh, one centimeter. Mercury orbi…"

"No plan of battle survives contact with the enemy, and time is the ultimate opponent."

"Policing is one of those jobs that will always revolve around a meatspace hub, if only because you can’t build a cell…"