"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…"

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

"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."

"The number one crime in any age: offending the money."

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

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