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

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

"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."

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

"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 …"

"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…"

"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…"