These songs were the true names of things, spoken by the soul, so easily buried under the little busynesses of everyman everyday. - Ian McDonald

She knew what she was now. She had a purpose. Freedom was still hers, but it was a purposeful freedom. She would seek responsibility, for freedom without responsibility was worthless, and to that duality she would add power, for responsibility without power was impotence. She would go to Wisdom and enthrone the trinity of liberties within herself.

That old saw about a problem shared being a problem halved? Damnable lie. A problem shared is a problem doubled.

Any aeai [A.I., artificial intelligence ] smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it.