He couldn’t make this go faster by pushing harder. - Lois McMaster Bujold

He leaned forward to put his elbows on the comconsole, and lace his fingers together, and regarded Miles with a kind of clinical disapproval, as if he were a data point that messed up the curve, and Illyan was deciding if he could still save the theory by re-classifying him as experimental error.

“We’ll never know the whole truth, I suppose,” said Venier.
Was that supposed to be a concession? “You can be told the whole truth all day long, but if you won’t believe it, then no, I don’t suppose you ever will never know it.”

Everything in the district competes for resources. The best solution is to make more resources.