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.

HR?' 'Human Resources.' 'In Brussels that kind of department is referred to as the Office for Personkind Enablement. Resources sounds like something you dig out of the ground.

The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.

Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving.

The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.

Sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to do what’s right.

You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.

I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.

Always trust in proven survivors.

The sun was boiling, the swaying was uncomfortable, the horse stank. She felt wonderful

Alien Affairs. Bad name I always thought, makes it sound like they're shagging them rather than investigating them.

A responsible woman guides, controls (albeit subtly), directs with superior knowledge that is higher than that of her contemporaries!

What if she figures out you're not very smart?

You have no idea how much pain I'm in. It's like being cut open every day, bleeding onto the stones. I can't understand how any of you failed to see the blood.

What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow.

As from the 1970's onward, digital code started to drive the global economy, now life code is beginning to be the fundamental driver of the global economy over the next 10, 20, 30 years.

Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.