The fight for survival made everything either resilient or forgotten. - James S. A. Corey

The question wasn’t whether moving psychoactive alien seedpods between worlds was a good idea so much as whether someone was going to lose face in front of a committee meeting. Thus were the great decisions of history made.

There is nothing so destructive and also so easy to overlook as a bad idea.

I mean, I’m all for forgiveness and bygones being bygones, but it’s easier to stomach that after the assholes are all dead.”