“Seems like the right tentacle ain’t keeping track of what the left tentacle’s up to,” Amos said. - James S. A. Corey

If they kill us all, Drummer thought, this will be why. Not their technology, not their strategy, not the invisible cycle of history. It’ll be our inability to do anything without five committee meetings to talk about it.

The devil is here," Cortez said. He shook his head at Anna's protesting frown. "Not some cartoon demon. I'm not a fool. But the devil has always lived in men when they reach too far, when they fail to ask if they should do something just because they can do it.

I’m going to go obsessively run diagnostics on systems I know are solid so I can feel like I have control of something.