All the old men set to their jobs with the grim robotic work ethic that always belongs to the previous generation. - Daniel H. Wilson

Compartmentalized knowledge is a mainstay of spycraft and necessary for any governmental information dissemination process.

Change scares people. Makes them dangerous.

It is a well-established Achilles’ heel of human civilization that individuals are more motivated by immediate private reward than by long-term, collective future benefits. This effect is particularly evident when considering payoffs that will take longer than a generation to arrive—a phenomenon called intragenerational discounting.