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Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.
The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.
Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.
Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and the smarts of Holmes--without the pesky morality.
If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out.
People need meaning as much as they need air. Lucky for us, we can give meaning to each other for free. Just by being alive.
The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.
I don't know how anybody can work at home. I know I can't. It's just... there's too much to do at the house, and now, of course, I have a daughter that's at home, and she's always a draw. I can always drop what I'm doing and go play with her, and I do that all day.
A soul isn't given for free. The races of men fight each other to the death for the honor of being recognized as human beings, with souls.
You don't pick your revolution. It picks you.
To survive, humans will work together. Accept each other. For a moment, we are all equal. Backs against the wall, human beings are at their finest.
Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.
Across the sea of space lies an infinite emptiness. I can feel it, suffocating me. It is without meaning. But each life creates its own reality.
...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.
Technology changes, but people stay the same.
There are no truer choices than those made in crisis, choices made without judgment.
Demolition is a part of construction.
It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.
A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans.
I can only give you words. Nothing fancy. But this will have to do. It doesn't matter if you're reading it a year from now or a hundred years from now. By the end of the chronicle you will know that humanity carried the flame of knowledge into the terrible blackness of the unknown, to the very brink of annihilation. And we carried it back.
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