So much technology, so little talent. - Vernor Vinge

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and least expensive manipulation of all.

There may have been some time in the past when a group calling themselves astrologers could produce results. I don’t know, and the matter doesn’t interest me, for I live in the present. In our time the men working in the name of astrology are incapable of producing results, are conscious frauds.

Yes, we did quite well. But then, telling people what they want to believe is an easy job.