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2 | Intro | Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden. He drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. | SMAC | N/A | The Conclave Bible, Datalinks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | The value of sleep and dreams as escape from Chiron? | Factor Roshann Cobb | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | The spirit has always been willing. The flesh has always been weak. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Accepting the limitations of birthform betrays a lack of imagination. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Go as I direct. Do as I bid. Why should my hand not control you? I see horizons you do not see. I make plans you cannot fathom. | Bahgavaad IV | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | On our small planet, at this moment, here we face a critical branch point in history: what we do with our world, right now, will propagate down through the centuries and powerfully affect the destiny of our descendants. It is well within our power to destroy our civilization, and perhaps our species as well. If we capitulate to superstition or greed or stupidity, we can plunge our world into a darkness deeper than the time between the collapse of classical civilization and the Italian Renaissance. But we are also capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant of this plant, to enhance enormously our understanding of the universe, and to carry us to the stars. | Carl Sagan | Carl Sagan | Datalinks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Through stealth, feint, ambush, and main force assault, a few of us cooperating accomplished what many of us, each hunting alone, could not. We depended on one another. Making it alone was as ludicrous to imagine as was settling down. | Carl Sagan | Carl Sagan | Pale Blue Dot, Datalinks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | In this, there are three keys: Do not be silent; be forgettable. Do not be invisible; be one of many. Do not aspire to leave no trace; rather, leave many, such that no one, not even the greatest detective, could find the right one. A maze is not one well-hidden path, but many seemingly obvious paths leading nowhere. | Karnewarrior (Reddit) | Lord's Conclave | Lord's Manual on Probe Operations | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | We do the devil's work where God cannot. | Karnewarrior (Reddit) | Lord's Conclave | Mephistopheles, Probe Team Operator | Team Aleph motto | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Systems do not come without connections. Isolation is a human invention. Breathe, and your breath expands, filling the space around you until it is indistinguishable from the atmosphere. Weep, and your tears will return to the ocean. Die, and your body will be returned to the fruits that sustained you in life. Enlightenment, then, can be seen as an understanding of the entire system, holistically, and the rejection of artificial isolation. | Karnewarrior (Reddit) | Human Labyrinth | Chairman Sheng-ji Yang | Looking God in the Eye | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | For 99.9% of the time since our species came to be, we were hunters and foragers. Wanderers on the savannahs and the steppes. The frontier was everywhere. We were bounded only by the Earth and the ocean and the sky. In the last 10,000 years--an instant in our long history--we've abandoned the nomadic life. For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us... edgy. Unfulfilled. The open road still softly calls. Like a nearly forgotten song of childhood. We invest far-off places with a certain romance. The appeal, I suspect, has been meticulously crafted by natural selection as an essential element in our survival. | Carl Sagan | Carl Sagan | Pale Blue Dot, Datalinks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | American science is guided by accountants and computers. Soviet science is guided by scientists. | University of Planet | Academician Prokhor Zakharov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Long summers, mild winters, rich havrests, plentiful game: none of them lasts forever. It is beyond our powers to predict the future. Catastrophic events have a way of sneaking up on us. Of catching us unaware. Your own life, or your band's, of even your species', might be owed to a restless few, drawn by a craving they can hardly articulate or understand, to undiscovered lands and new worlds. | Carl Sagan | Carl Sagan | Pale Blue Dot, Datalinks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Just now, there are a great many matters that are pressing in on us that compete for the money it takes to send people to other worlds. Should we solve those problems first, or are they a reason for going? Even if the call of the open road is muted in our time, a central element of the human future lies far beyond the Earth. | Carl Sagan | Carl Sagan | Pale Blue Dot, Datalinks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Danger is to the soul of man what electricity is to the nervous system. | Trenacker | Hunters of Chiron | Game Warden J.T. Marsh | Peregrinations of Planet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Tech | Science is but the chariot, and warfare its horse. | Trenacker | Advanced Ballistics | Conquer | The dense atmosphere and high gravity of Chiron force artillerists to learn a new set of constants but, as on Earth, artillery remains undisputed king of the battlefield. | Spartan Federation | Colonel Corazón Santiago | Ethics of Survival | ||||||||||||||||||||
18 | C'mon, you're not even alive / If you're not back up on a drive. | Strategos' Risk | Grimes | We Appreciate Power | Datalinks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | In 1776, some farmers on a new frontier made a fantastic gamble. They traded the certainty of one tyrant, three thousand miles away, for the possibility of three thousand tyrants, one mile away. It took 260 years for those chickens to come home to roost, but when they did, we all learned a valuable lesson. Three thousand corrupt, lazy tyrants is certainly worse than one. | Trenacker | New Two Thousand | Squire Oscar van de Graaf | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | The human body is a piece of art, not an outcome of process. We know this from the small imperfections that make unique and perfect what would otherwise be unremarkable. | Lord's Conclave | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | In my estimation, the micron seal is the most important health improvement of the last century. If cancer is the sheer accumulation of minor errors and irritants over time, then the micron seal is our indispensible shield. | University of Planet | Academician Prokhor Zahakrov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Tech | When Uzziah, king, built his catapults, he forgot who won his battles. We cannot quite blast objects into space without the assistance of a booster rocket, but catapults make lighter work for the Lord. | Trenacker | Kinetic Space Launch Systems | Discover | Lord's Conclave | Sister Miriam Godwinson | Dedication to the Wise Men | |||||||||||||||||||||
23 | The Spartan navy decisively won the battle, scattering our ships in panicked retreat, or so we allowed them to think. In reality, it was never about controlling that mostly useless patch of coastal shelf. All we had to do was sink one cruiser, and soon afterwards our dive teams were able to salvage a chaos gun from the wreck and download the deep radar programming from an intact datacore. In their zeal to purge us from their waters, the Spartans had unwittingly upgraded all our forces. | Miriam Godwinson | Nautilus Pirates | Captain Ulrik Svensgaard | The Nessus Saga | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | The tragedy of the commons is a major concern for intricate ecosystems, especially aquatic ones. We will happily parcel out coastal regions for development into kelp farms and fishing zones provided that these businesses behave sustainably. Less scrupulous factions, however, might decree that whatever you take from the sea is rightfully yours to dispose of as you please. I agree with this theory of property, which is why my property has cannons and is sailing towards yours. | Miriam Godwinson | Nautilus Pirates | Captain Ulrik Svensgaard | Proclamation of the Pirate Code | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | Morgan likes to pretend he is the most pacifist of all rulers and that his society is based purely on the freely consented sale of labor. But when his workers start to organize and their negotiations start cutting into his profit margins, we’ll see how much he really believes in non-aggression. | Miriam Godwinson | Free Drones | Foreman Domai | Digging to Freedom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Before I begin this admittedly disturbing confession, which hopefully will not go public for centuries, let me stress that I have always abhorred violence, and I only inflicted that which was necessary to prevent the far greater and more gruesome tragedy of Planet’s awakened wrath. History will vindicate me once the nature of this ecosystem is proven to all. | Miriam Godwinson | Gaia's Stepdaughters | Lady Deirdre Skye | Our Secret War | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | Loathe as I am to admit that the wretched Hive has made a significant contribution to human development, Yang’s new system of synthetic nutrient injections has been quite efficient at eradicating hunger among his teeming masses. Though I understand perfectly why connecting oneself to a sterile dispenser of unnatural liquid can be unnerving, I have authorized the construction of similar public facilities in UN Headquarters, which will hopefully not have to become mandatory. | Miriam Godwinson | Peacekeeping Forces | Commissioner Pravin Lal | Man and Machine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | Two styles of bases stand out for their unique efficiency in harmonizing with our new environment: first, the tall, treelike towers which the Gaians have outfitted so thoroughly with renewable inputs that the resultant pollution is almost too minute to be detectable. Second, the deep labyrinthine bunkers of the Human Hive, which manage to combine excavation and habitation remarkably well… if you can stomach the cold, cramped conditions and a life of constant control. | Miriam Godwinson | Peacekeeping Forces | Commissioner Pravin Lal | A Social History of Planet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | Let the propagandists publish their hit pieces, but I can assure every open-minded Gaian citizen that I do not, in fact, intend to shred every last forest for every last splinter. In five hundred years I promise that Morgan Industries will be the most splendid and prosperous civilization in human history until now – and turning beautiful land into barren rubble isn’t very useful to my long-term ambitions. | Miriam Godwinson | Morgan Industries | CEO Nwabudike Morgan | MorganLink 3D-Vision Live Interview | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Primitive theories of criminology stated that an organism must have already caused harm to the social structure before its malfunction can be addressed. The most recent patches to our neural augments and surveillance algorithms have corrected this error. | Miriam Godwinson | Cybernetic Consciousness | Prime Function Aki Zeta-5 | Antiviral Protocols | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Deconstruction of economic power relations is an absurd delusion. The only question is: who rules whom? It is perfectly just, beneficial, and dignified that citizens may at times be employed for the common interest of the people rather than for oligarchic profit or anarchic chaos. For those unwilling or unable to take up arms, a nation has plenty of peaceful duties to fulfill. | Miriam Godwinson | Spartan Federation | Colonel Corazón Santiago | The Economics of Victory | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | And like the streets of yesteryear, the datalinks can be cleansed, even if we must use a firehose of diluvian proportions. Then shall the evil be washed away, like children born in sin and baptized into righteousness! | Miriam Godwinson | Lord's Conclave | Sister Miriam Godwinson | The Blessed Struggle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
33 | It was a match that dean of American foreign policy, former Secretary of State Nicholas LoCardia, said was “made in heaven.” Sitting down with documentarian Ken Burns, Jr., Carmelite courtier Doun Al-Harith explained it simply: Microstates, in desperate need of money, had a tendency to mortgage themselves to corporations, which wanted immediate returns on their investment. Modern monarchs brought smaller infusions of wealth, but the fortunes of a ruling house were almost guaranteed to be wedded to the new nation over a period of centuries. | Ken Burns's Planet: A History | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Presidents come and go, but I shall still be your king in twenty years, and in forty, and in sixty. And so you see, the best gift I give you is not my wealth or my wisdom, but something more precious still: a measure of certainty in this uncertain world. | King Silas Benjamin | Appeal to the People of Shiloh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | The fundamental requirements for democracy are information and wealth. People must be educated enough to govern themselves well, and comfortable enough that they will not let bitterness lead them astray. Until then, the best we can give them is rule by their betters. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | Democracy is the luxury of a comfortable people. But people are rarely comfortable, and never for very long. In an uncomfortable democracy, voters are led by their base fears directly into the arms of demagogues and corporations. The result is a new slavery—to the pill, the watchvid, or to the production line. Fortunately, history furnishes us with a solution: grand monarchy. An emperor, or a shahanshah, who can curb the lesser elite and thereby give his people the stability they deserve. The ruling family binds its fortune to the nation, and gives up its sons and daughters in the national service. It is accountable to the people in ways that a merchant never shall be. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
37 | The human body is the cleverest fortress. | Peacekeeping Forces | Dr. Pravin Lal | Chief of Thoracic Surgery, Aga Khan University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | Cuius regio, una lex’ is our new prescription. It matters not your ruler, for you are entitled to the blessings of peace no matter under whom you have been subjected.' | Trenacker | Peacekeeping Forces | Commissioner Pravin Lal | Address to the Planetary Council | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Tech | Mind-machine interface focuses attention on what we might be able to put in, when what comes out has always been far more important. | Trenacker | Generative AI | Discover | Lord's Conclave | Sister Miriam Godwinson | We Must Dissent | |||||||||||||||||||||
40 | Human nature is so constituted that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him; and even that it cannot do long, if the signs of power do not arise. | Other | Frederick Douglas | Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History | Datalinks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | When the climate as congenial though, when the food was plentiful, we were willing to stay put. Unadvenurours. Overweight. Careless. In the last ten thousand years--an instant in our long history--we've abandoned the nomadic life. We've domesticated the plants and animals. Why chase the food when you can make it come to you? | Other | Carl Sagan | Pale Blue Dot | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
42 | We are too small and our statecraft too feeble to be seen by a spacecraft between the Earth and the Moon. From this vantage point, our obsession with nationalism is nowhere in evidence. | Other | Carl Sagan | Pale Blue Dot | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | The essential requirement for freedom is vigilance, and the essential requirement for vigilance, curiosity. It is not enough merely to watch for danger. One must also learn the names and faces under which it masquerades. | Trenacker | Peacekeeping Forces | Commissioner Pravin Lal | What We Left Behind Us | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
44 | Tech | The Bortlemanns Optimums were as good as a death sentence for intellectual curiosity. Once a scientist informed people of their limitations, they believed him. | Trenacker | Hunters of Chiron | Warden J.T. Marsh | The Lost World | |||||||||||||||||||||||
45 | The man who has grit enough to bring about the afforestation or the irrigation of a country is not less worthy of honor than its conqueror. | Other | Sir John Thomson | Datalinks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
46 | To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer. | Other | Autonomous Systems | Paul R. Ehrlich | Datalinks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | Tech | Memory is the real stuff of intelligence. Imagine two libraries. One has only a few books. I stipulate: these can be found quickly and contain few errors. The other has a thousand items of varying quality. Which would you prefer? | Trenacker | Tomorrow Institute | Annunciator Sathieu Metrion | An Ancient Architecture | |||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | Tech | Memory, like experience, changes its value according to the beholder. Only sentiment turns a house into a home. To everyone else, it is just an arrangement of bricks. Our modern science can show you exactly where your loved one is stacked. | Trenacker | Morgan Industries | CEO Nwabudike Morgan | Meeting Minutes, Morgan Memory Link | |||||||||||||||||||||||
49 | Tech | All machines are time machines. If it can do in an hour--in an instant!--what you once did in a day, or a year, or a lifetime, then what possibilities lie before us! | Trenacker | Atomic Computing | Discover | Morgan Industries | CEO Nwabudike Morgan | Faster! | |||||||||||||||||||||
50 | A managed Planet is a Potemkin Village—the shoddy work of an inferior hand. | Trenacker | Human Conclave | Sister Miriam Godwinson | We Must Dissent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | In the history of frontiers, there is this problem of the intermediary period when civilization and its malcontents decide what will happen next. What one sees right now is a sort of melding of professions. You might say, tactical chemistry: the application of the most cutting-edge science, the very methods of which are still being devised, under circumstances that call for all the craft of Odysseus. Somebody call Indiana Jones. | Trenacker | Morgan Industries | CSO Quelliam Wakes | Lectures on the High Frontier | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
52 | Doctrine | Understand the difference between survival and adaptation. Cockroaches are survivable. But only the species that had evolved free will was capable of the change required to escape the Great Catastrophe. | Trenacker | Centauri Survival | Explore | Human Labyrinth | Chairman Sheng-ji Yang | Ethics for Tomorrow | |||||||||||||||||||||
53 | What at first must have appeared to be an ingenious, if unorthodox, solution to the lack of traditional therapies was, in fact, an organized transformation. These patients were not seeking to recover so much as they were seeking to become. | Trenacker | Morgan Industries | Bad'l Ron, Wakener | Acmes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | Tech | In his attitude toward Planet, Coordinator Nagao applies that most-essential lesson first taught to us by Mr. Morgan: That the best enemy is the one unable to fight back. | Trenacker | Hydraulic Fracking | Expand | Peacekeeping Forces | Commissioner Pravin Lal | Lamentations | |||||||||||||||||||||
55 | Tech | Is there prejudice in the data? I confirm prejudice in the collector, and error in the method. Scrub the project. Begin anew. After that has been done, do the same again. The balm for prejudice is information. | Trenacker | UNITY Computing | Unity | Cybernetic Consciousness | Prime Function Aki Zeta-5 | The Fallacies of Self-Awareness | |||||||||||||||||||||
56 | The central idea of the Soviet Union was that the entire energy of a society should be put toward the improvement of the species, not of the individual. I ask you: what is more noble than this? | Trenacker | University of Planet | Academician Prokhor Zakharov | For I Have Tasted The Fruit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | It should be obvious to any student of history that the most impactful military technology ever devised was the typewriter. | Trenacker | Spartan Federation | Colonel Corazón Santiago | Warfare Through the Centuries | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | See what we have accomplished in only four thousand years. We have extended human life. Achieved powered flight. Altered the trajectories of the objects in our solar system. Killed an entire world. What we dream, we find we must do. | Trenacker | Human Labyrinth | Chairman Sheng-ji Yang | Ethics for Tomorrow | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Tech | The agony of loss is keenest when there is potential left unrealized. | Trenacker | UNITY Salvage Operations | Expand | Gaia's Stepdaughters | Lady Deirdre Skye | Planet Dreams | |||||||||||||||||||||
60 | Man without history is a loaded pistol pointed at the wrong target. | Trenacker | Tomorrow Institute | Annunciator Sathieu Metrion | Timelines | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
61 | Democracy is fantastic—but the price, alas, is lamentably high. I care more about watching my children grow to adolescence than casting a vote every four years for someone bound to disappoint me anyway. | Trenacker | Morgan Industries | T.M. Morgan-Reilly | The Changing Face of Demand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
62 | A king is just a banker who spends men in place of money. And with less regret. | Trenacker | Dreamers of Chiron | Factor Roshann Cobb | The Puzzle Box | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | The human alone seeks to explain his existence beyond survival for the purpose of reproduction. I say, the purpose was known to us even in ancient times: to be of some good use to our fellows. | Trenacker | Human Tribe | Sedgel Meertens | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
64 | Tech | The Slowmoss is the petty criminal of Planet, portending the start of a rapid decline for other resident species until the Grand Season returns. If the xenofungus has not yet taken hold by then, the delicate Slowmoss will die off and the previously-dominant species will return to the land, but it is a rare thing when the xenofungus is slow to follow where its herald first goes. | Trenacker | Centauri Biology | Growth | Gaia's Stepdaughters | Lady Deirdre Skye | A Comparative Biology of Planet | |||||||||||||||||||||
65 | You mistake me. I do not demand success--only the determination to see your way ever through the odds. A blunted blade requires a stronger arm. | Trenacker | Human Labyrinth | Chairman Sheng-ji Yang | Essays on Mind and Matter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
66 | Tech | Dimensional thinking will win the next war. Yang comes from below his enemies. Cobb strikes from within. Who else but us should come next from above? | Trenacker | Cloudbase Academy | Conquer | Memory of Earth | Commander Kleisel Mercator | In Council | |||||||||||||||||||||
67 | I have learned to esteem a leader in proportion to their enemies. You flatter yourself, counselor, to imagine that your job is to make all people happy. No, indeed. The ruler determines who must weep and who shall dance with joy. No crop was ever harvested without the rain. | Trenacker | Peacekeeping Forces | Vesper Abaddon | Admonishment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
68 | If the choice is between going forward and going back, then the problem is solved at once. The backward path leads home. Only a fool lingers in the forest after dark. | Trenacker | Choose | Shapers of Chiron | Coordinator Shoichiro Nagao | Remembrances | |||||||||||||||||||||||
69 | A coin will have many owners 'ere it is melted down, and we will remember none of them. Your purpose here is not to lie in repose. It is not to study the rocks or praise the trees. You are here because this place is empty. You have come to fill it with what you think good. | Trenacker | New Two Thousand | Governor Oscar van de Graaf | Valediction at Fort Enterprise | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
70 | When I was seventeen, the Taipan fetched me along with him to Khartoum. We arrived in the city three days after the pattern bombings. Half the population was killed outright. We toured the crater that had been the Souk Omdurman. The Taipan soon inked a contract for rebuilding. It was barking mad. What had they to give in return? The government defaulted two years later and we came away with nothing. I couldn't help ask: who the devil had been served? | Trenacker | Dreamers of Chiron | Factor Roshann Cobb | Break the Dark Mirror | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
71 | Tech | We forget the first lesson of planetary physics. All the world's history is sunk beneath our feet. | Trenacker | Ceremonial Burial | Unity | New State | Contre-Amirale Raoul André St. Germaine | In the Heart of the Sea | |||||||||||||||||||||
72 | Tech | In war and emergency response--the most important forms of human problem-solving--we have long known that the privilege of tactical decision is best devolved to the lowest level, where first-hand knowledge and immediate risk are at their perigee. This is the 'new' idea behind biological computing. | Trenacker | Biocomputing | Discovery | Probe Team Commander Argyle Seraton | |||||||||||||||||||||||
73 | Tech | We stored our books in libraries that could burn, and our digital information in a formless ether that was vulnerable from all directions. Now we can store it in our very selves. In ages past, a scribbler could corrupt the contents of a book, and a phreaker the contents of a database. But as liars one and all, will our very own characters change the nature of the information we inject? | Trenacker | DNA Data Storage | Discovery | Dreamers of Chiron | Factor Roshann Cobb | Digital Decay | |||||||||||||||||||||
74 | Tech | What court will not agree? Negligence is no defense. You have taken my product, sirs, though you did not intend and could not help it. So I shall have my fee. | Trenacker | Wireless Energy Transmission | Build | Morgan Industries | CEO Nwabudike Morgan | ||||||||||||||||||||||
75 | Fantasists will tell you about spoonfuls of sugar. Do not confuse the feeling of hurt with the fact of harm. Hurting is help. Even children know that good medicine is bitter. | Trenacker | Dreamers of Chiron | Dr. Aleigha Cohen | A New Oath | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
76 | The scientist is a servant, not a leader. Old Believers understand this fundamentally. God is the greatest scientist of them all. The complex systems at work in our universe reflect His labor. And so it is with Artificial Intelligence. God created Adam, and we created AI. The ability of AI to defy human control is no more real than the power of sinners to escape God's Judgement. | Trenacker | Children of the Atom | Mediator Dr. Johann Anhaldt | Adam, His Atoms | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
77 | Tech | Crafting a carefully-choreographed stage play of the mind is almost never worth the effort. What you really want to do is influence behavior. So first thing, you must introduce bias. That's as simple as associating a true engram with a hated stimuli. In essence, Pavlov. Your search for the perfect way to train a dog took you back at last to the bell. | Trenacker | Engram Fabrication | Command | Dreamers of Chiron | Factor Roshann Cobb | Rebuilding Man | |||||||||||||||||||||
78 | Doctrine | Disk Obedience is the capitalism for a new age. The programmer assumes the role of the industrialist—and we, the poor and the ignorant, are assured that only his talents are adequate to the avoidance of doom. | Trenacker | Disk Obedience | University of Planet | Academician Prokhor Zakharov | For I Have Tasted The Fruit | ||||||||||||||||||||||
79 | If I must be subject to a tyrant, let him also be the better man. | Trenacker | The New State | Contre-amirale Raoul André St. Germaine | Personal Diaries | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
80 | Feeling is information: a reflection of lived experience, and ritual, our means of accessing it. | Trenacker | Dreamers of Chiron | Factor Roshann Cobb | Human Calculus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
81 | The human settlement is a self-regulating system. Cleanliness, splendor, and calm, impossible to impose at the founding, will eventually become the popular demand. | Trenacker | Morgan Industries | CEO Nwabudike Morgan | Notes on Value | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
82 | The baton strikes haphazardly. Among the more fortunate, this may impart an unwanted sense of immunity. You will find that gas punishes equitably. | Trenacker | Doctrine: Suppression | Human Labyrinth | Chairman Sheng-ji Yang | Instructions to the Acolytes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
83 | Thinking machines aren't human. Humans are passionate. Humans make mistakes. Thinking machines do neither. Never confuse a malfunction for a mistake. Machines don't learn from malfunction. | Trenacker | Human Tribe | Selectman Peter "Pete" Landers | Hue and Cry | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
84 | The United States Government didn't ordinarily excuse vice in defense of its virtues. I didn't just forgive it, I demanded it. | Trenacker | New Two Thousand | Governor Oscar van de Graaf | Under My Wings, All Things Prosper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
85 | Sentimentality is the greatest foe of the human species. We think only of today’s happiness and pleasure, never of tomorrow’s harvest. | Trenacker | University of Planet | Academician Prokhor Zakharov | Address to the United Nations | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
86 | Tech | This living world takes us for its own example. As we do unto Planet, so Planet will do unto us. | Trenacker | Closed Ecological Systems | Growth | Gaia's Stepdaughters | Lady Deirdre Skye | Planet Dreams | |||||||||||||||||||||
87 | Any believer in a prejudice will tell you plainly: it is a failing best shared. | Trenacker | Captain Jonathan Garland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
88 | The earliest civilizations were sun worshipers. In the Bible, God first made light. Yet we, a people of the sun, have raised full generations underground, or wrapped in metal cocoons. You aren't really human if you've never felt the heat of sunlight on your upturned face. | Trenacker | Hunters of Planet | Warden J.T. Marsh | The Lost World | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
89 | The fundamental problem of our species is that we are better-equipped to handle routine than choice. | Trenacker | Dreamers of Chiron | Factor Roshann Cobb | Follow the White Rabbit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
90 | In the quiet havens, we rekindle the art of conversation, constructing strong bonds of fellowship immune to the encroachments of the digital world. | Transcendent (Impact Beyond) | Robikai Corporation/Impact Beyond | Corporate Philosophy Statement | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
91 | In our marketplace, it's the spirit we enrich, not just the wallet. | Transcendent (Impact Beyond) | Robikai Corporation/Impact Beyond | Outside the Box | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
92 | Whether they knew it or not, the North American Holnists, too, were victims of a timeless problem. It is impossible to tell an audience what has happened without also influencing how they feel about it. | Trenacker | Tomorrow Institute | Tạ Dọc Thân | Media and Modern War | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
93 | Tech | Living systems cannot be fully described in mathematical terms. Successful examples always have a value greater than the sum of their individual parts. | Trenacker | Centauri Ecology | Growth | Gaia's Stepdaughters | Lady Deirdre Skye | A Comparative Biology of Planet | |||||||||||||||||||||
94 | Like the disbelieving womanizer who promises change only after his much-abused lover has at last begun to collect her things, they realized the fullness of their mistake only at the end. | Trenacker | Peacekeeping Forces | Commissioner Pravin Lal | What We Left Behind Us | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
95 | By Mission Year 100, only the most-naive of his acolytes could still believe that Chairman Yang would ever find an acceptable successor. Shorn of his decrepit body--reduced to a brain in a jar--he lived on as a series of ideas. He communicated through the microchips implanted at the base of every Hivemans' skull and in the stanzas of his poetry, which accumulate on the Datalinks to this very day. | Trenacker | Peacekeeping Forces | President Tymant Harka | Generations of Planet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
96 | Do not confuse a librarian with a creator, or even a curator. They are, at best, a field guide. They did not decide what to take, or why, only gave the most precise attention to where it would go for safekeeping, and how to find it again tomorrow. | Trenacker | Informatics | Unity | Tomorrow Institute | Annunciator Sathieu Metrion | An Ancient Architecture | ||||||||||||||||||||||
97 | We did not require to be told the obvious--that once the apple is plucked, it can never be restored to the tree. | Trenacker | Atomic Liquidation | Lord's Conclave | Sister Miriam Godwinson | On the Nature of Progress | |||||||||||||||||||||||
98 | Doctrine | Have just been told we are under attack by Sparta and Ascendancy. Reasons for hostilities, unclear. Friendly casualties, very high. | Trenacker | Special War | Conquer | University of Planet | Priority Omega-One Emergency Transmission | Razvitia-Progress Base | |||||||||||||||||||||
99 | Oscar knew the first rule of being a fish. If you realize you're swimming with the sharks, find a smaller pond. | Trenacker | New Two Thousand | Territorial Governor Seligman Spires | Ken Burns's Planet: A History | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
100 | I can see no reason why timidity and cupidity should be our leaders into the twenty-second century. You say I want to take all the heart out of it. That is incorrect. I merely want to get it right. I want my taxes to pay for something worthwhile, not failures with a human face. | Trenacker | Children of the Atom | Dr. Johann Anhaldt | Quoted in Le Monde, November 2028 |