I don’t question your loyalty, Skade. I just wonder exactly what it is you’re loyal to. - Alastair Reynolds

We have been clever, and on occasion we have been foolish. For smart monkeys, we can, when the mood takes us, be exceedingly stupid. But it was cleverness that brought us to this point, and it is only cleverness that will serve us from now on.
We have no time for anything else.

Humanity is an assemblage of information-processing entities, and in that regard you have potential.

Memo to himself: the one way to make people panic was to warn them not to.