The Cold War was all about who could build the biggest refrigerator, wasn’t it? - Charles Stross

He’s had a lot of practice helping families suffering from experiences that are simultaneously mundane and far more horrifying than anything in a movie: deaths from cancer and dementia, the loss of babies and young children, that sort of thing.

I tend to believe that the difference between us and them is that we don’t compromise our principles for temporary convenience.

It was a lousy plan, the only thing to commend it being the fact that all the alternatives were worse.