The theory was and always had been: this is the thing the solid citizen has no need to worry about. Important, later all-important question: what abo… - John Brunner

...is this an unforgivable invasion of privacy? Invasion of privacy it is; unforgivable ...Well, do you believe that justice shall not only be done, but shall be seen to be done? The privacy my worm is designed to invade is that privacy under whose cover justice is not than and injustice is not seen. It doesn't care whether the poker who leeched his tax-free payoff spent it on seducing little girls; it cares only thata he was rewared for commiting a crime and wasn't brought to book. It doesn't care if the shivver who bought that congressman was straight or gay; it cares only that a public servant took a bribe. It doesn't care if the judge who misdirected the jury was concerned to keep her lover's identity secret; it cares only that a person was jailed who should have been released.
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He had decided it was better to be a volcano than a man; at least one set no store by what one’s acts destroyed.

First we had the legs race. Then we had the arms race. Now we’re going to have the brain race.