Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza with roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. - Daniel Suarez

Gragg felt the tingling of the Third Eye on his stomach and back. The Third Eye was another of the miracles that Sobol had bestowed upon him. It was a form-fitting conductive shirt worn next to the skin — but it wasn’t a garment. It was a haptic device that helped him use his body’s largest organ — his skin — as another, all-seeing eye. An eye that never blinked, and an eye that could see around him in 360 degrees or halfway around the world, if he wished.

The less variation there is in a system, the more readily parasites will evolve to infest it

When I realized what our world had become, how humanity had become cogs in its own machine, I resolved to do something terrible . . . perhaps one of the worse things ever done. To exploit the automation of our world in order to plant the seed of a new system is reckless and irresponsible. But I didn’t see any other way we would change. Or could change. “But