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• I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years.
  Even five hundred would be pretty nice....
• Yes, yes, we've all heard the philosophers babble about "oneness" being "beautiful" and "holy".
  But let me tell you that {this} kind of oneness certainly isn't pretty and if you're not careful it will scare the bejeezus out of you....
• Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future.
  By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright?...
• Some civilian workers got in among the research patients today and became so hysterical I felt compelled to have them nerve stapled.
  The consequence, of course, will be another public relations nightmare, but I was severely shaken by the extent of their revulsion towards a project so vital to our survival....
• Of course we'll bundle our MorganNet software with the new network node
  our customers expect no less of us. We have never sought to become a monopoly....
• Energy is the currency of the future.
  -- CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly...
• Optical computers, genetic catalogs, nanorepair modules--forget all of that.
  It's when you see a megaton of steel suspended over your head by a thread the thickness of a human hair that you really find God in technology....
• Our first challenge is to create an entire economic infrastructure, from top to bottom, out of whole cloth.
  No gradual evolution from previous economic systems is possible, because there IS no previous economic system....
• What they said: What they meant: "I recommend this candidate with no qualifications whatsoever.
  (Yes, that about sums it up.) "The amount of mathematics she knows will surprise you....