Maurice was scandalized, horrified. He was shocked to the bottom of his suburban soul.... - E. M. Forster

If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.

No one confessed the Machine was out of hand. Year by year it was served with increased efficiency and decreased intelligence. The better a man knew his own duties upon it, the less he understood the duties of his neighbor, and in all the world there was not one who understood the monster as a whole. Those master brains had perished.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.