All right, he thought, so the details were not perfect. But maybe, in a sense, that was part of the magic, too. - Gregory Benford

That thing doesn’t care about you. It won’t reward you when you take risks. It is simply indifferent. That’s the fact about it that most never learn. They hate it and fear it and finally ignore it. Because of that. It would be easier if it hated us. Maybe even if it hunted us. But it doesn’t care. Remember.

You'll never get it to follow orders." "Slaves follow orders, Colonel. You want something done a slave can't, you don't ask for a slave to do it.

The ship of theory could set sail on tides of mathematical grandeur and hope alone, but only data could fill its sails.