Distributed responsibility is the problem. One person gives the order, another carries it out. One can say they didn’t pull the trigger, the other th… - James S. A. Corey

Put a dozen people in front of their cameras, and you’d wind up with thirteen opinions.

The mirror plummeting toward the surface of Ganymede—toward his greenhouse, his soybeans, his life’s work—hadn’t chosen anything. It was a victim of cause and effect, the same as everything else.

“We came out here with an operational plan,” she said. “If we start rewriting it every time we find an adjustment we’d like to make, we might as well not have bothered.”
Privately, Bull thought the same thing, but with a different inflection. If he’d been XO, the operational plan would have been called a suggested guideline and only opened when he wanted a good laugh.