It’s amazing how much work you can get done in three days if you hold a blowtorch to each end of the candle. - Charles Stross

Like I said: the only god I believe in is coming back. And when he arrives, I’ll be waiting with a shotgun.

The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used.

Before the singularity, human beings living on Earth had looked at the stars and consoled themselves in their isolation with the comforting belief that the universe didn’t care.
Unfortunately, they were mistaken.