Only trying to make conversation, friend." "Don't bother—it's an overrated activity at the best of times. - Alastair Reynolds

“That would require an unprecedented leap of faith.”
“I don’t do faith,” Scorpio said.

We don’t aspire to genetic unity, no matter what your propagandists think. The pursuit of optima leads only to local minima. We honour our errors. We actively seek persistent disequilibrium.

There were choices to be made, harder choices than I would have liked, and I realised that I had been neglecting them because of their very difficulty.