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  One does not simply take sand from the beach and produce a Dataprobe....
• What do I care for your suffering? Pain, even agony, is no more than information before the senses, data fed to the computer of the mind.
  The lesson is simple: you have received the information, now act on it....
• If our society seems more nihilistic than that of previous eras, perhaps this is simply a sign of our maturity as a sentient species.
  As our collective consciousness expands beyond a crucial point, we are at last ready to accept life's fundamental truth...
• Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded.
  -- Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Looking God in the Eye...
• My gift to industry is the genetically engineered worker, or Genejack.
  Specially designed for labor, the Genejack's muscles and nerves are ideal for his task, and the cerebral cortex has been atrophied so that he can desire nothing except to perform his duties....
• We hold life to be sacred, but we also know the foundation of life consists in a stream of codes not so different from the successive frames of a watchvid.
  Why then cannot we cut one code short here, and start another there?...
• Data: "We are more alike than unlike, my dear Captain.
  I have pores, humans have pores. I have fingerprints, humans have fingerprints....
• Are you a parent? Do you sometimes find yourself unsure as to what to say in those awkward situations?
  Worry no more... When are you going to grow up?...
• I maintain nonetheless that yin-yang dualism can be overcome.
  With sufficient enlightenment we can give substance to any distinctio...