"I know my limits." "No one knows their limits till they've gone beyond them." - Lois McMaster Bujold

If we get straight truth in, maybe we’ve got half a chance of getting good judgment out. No damn chance otherwise, that’s for sure.

Behavior that is rewarded is repeated. And the reverse.

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.