Quit crossing your fingers, Wim; the only thing that’ll ever save you from is the respect of educated men. - Vernor Vinge

If during the last thousand seconds you have received any High-Beyond-protocol packets from "Arbitration Arts," discard them at once. If they have been processed, then the processing site and all locally netted sites must be physically destroyed at once. We realize that this means the destruction of solar systems, but consider the alternative. You are under Transcendent attack.

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind—but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

Do you think she really believes what she's saying?"
"Sure she believes it. That's what makes her so funny.