We have sealed ourselves away behind our money, growing inward, generating a seamless universe of self. - William Gibson

It will bring about the extinction of the nation-state as we know it... I think it will be as big a deal as the creation of cities.

You needed a new pancreas. The one we bought for you frees you from a dangerous dependency.” “Thanks, but I was enjoying that dependency.

What you need to remember, with these guys, is that they don't know they're con men. They're wildly overconfident. Omnipotence, omniscience — that's part of the mythology that surrounds the Special Forces....Your guy can walk in the door and promise training in something he personally doesn't know how to do, and not even realize he's bullshitting about his own capabilities. It's a special kind of gullibility....