The less variation there is in a system, the more readily parasites will evolve to infest it - Daniel Suarez

There’s no better time to celebrate friendship than when things are at their worst.

Love and hate are opposite sides of the same coin, you know — both passions. You can flip from one to the other — but not to indifference

My generation has no intention of living as serfs on a corporate manor, Dad. When people became more reliant on multinational corporations than on their own communities, they surrendered whatever say they had in their government. Corporations are growing stronger while democratic government becomes increasingly helpless.