This is the price you must pay for knowledge: You must understand and acknowledge its consequences. - Michael Swanwick

It's inspired lunacy," Leyster agreed. Chuck looked crestfallen. "Right up there with continental drift, or the notion that birds might be descended from dinosaurs." Chuck brightened. "But it's also right up there with Eric Van Danniken and Lamarckian genetics. Until we've tested it out, it's just a nifty hypothesis, no more.

Are you ready?" Jane asked.
"Before I existed, I was ready.

The oracle-glass was maddeningly literal, capable of answering only the question one asked, rather than that which one wanted answered.