How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We’ll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.

The ubiquitous semi-sentient utility routine running in her macrocellular clusters responded immediately by unfolding a basic array of mental icons, slender lines of blue fairy light that superimposed themselves within her wobbly vision. She frowned. If she was reading their efficiency modes correctly, her biononics had.

That’s a huge gamble.” “We’re long past the time for careful certainty.

Memories do not hurt, they only influence.

Without education and understanding, the barbarians would have outnumbered us and swarmed the city gates a long time ago.

Violence: the brutish solution of the ignorant who know they could never get enough people to vote for them.

Any species possessing this kind of knowledge base is best left unannoyed.

I don’t understand why you need verbal trickery to ensnare a temporary mate,” Tochee said. “Are you not attracted to each other by what you are?

So government did what government always does when confronted with an opposition which can’t be brought down by fair and legal means. It cheated.

The biggest victory they can have is to change our lives. I am going to carry on exactly as before. Anything else is allowing them to win.