Quotes from Carter Scholz

transcendence, if it meant anything at all, was the accommodation to limits: a finding of freedom within them, not a breaking of them.

So long for us to evolve. So long to walk out of Africa and around the globe. So long to build a human world. So quick to ruin it.

You're joking. No, it's true. There are billions of internal surfaces in that piece. It's like a piece of sky. Yes, it is.

Zia didn't trust materials. Or rather, he trusted them to fail. Superconductors, carbon composite, silicon, the human body. Problem was, you never knew just how or when...

And then he was just weary. His job was done. Existence seemed a pointless series of problems. What was identity? Better never to have been. He shut his eyes.

Even now, missing Earth, he felt sympathy only for those aboard Gypsy, those orphaned, damaged, disaffected, dispossessed, Aspergerish souls whose anger at that great abstraction, The World, was more truly an anger at all those fortunate enough to be unlike them. We were all so young. How can you be so young, and so hungry for, and yet so empty of life?

If you want freedom, somebody's got to fuck a rat.

She walked the short distance to the ship's console and sat. It would have been grandiose to call it a bridge. It was a small desk bolted to the floor. It held a couple of monitors, a keyboard, some pads. It was like the light and sound booth of a community theater.

Where are they going? Alpha Centauri. That's impossible. Very likely. But that's where they're going. Why? It's less impossible than here.