I can't imagine," said Dupre, "a better way to unnerve people than to tell them there's no cause for alarm. - Jack McDevitt

If you want data to survive, carve it in rock.

See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered.

When she’d mentioned it to Matt, he had piously denied everything. Piety was always how you knew Matt was lying.