“Our guess is that machines capable enough to be useful interstellar explorers are necessarily so complex as to be vulnerable to mutation in their programs,” Dayan said. “They need not visit a nova. Sooner or later, if nothing else, cosmic radiation will do it. Generally, they lose their ‘wits’ and just drift on aimlessly forever. Probably no line of von Neumanns gets beyond a few hundred light-years before it goes effectively extinct.”
― Starfarers
― Starfarers
“The fact that there are countless things we will never know, and many that we could not possibly know, does not mean they do not exist—only that we cannot prove it.”
― Starfarers
― Starfarers
“Good ser, it is gold I crave, not words on papers.”
― A Clash of Kings
― A Clash of Kings
“The area-bombing advocates had this cleverly deceptive word they used to describe the effect of their bombing: dehousing. As if you could destroy a house without disturbing its occupants. But if my house is gone, doesn’t that make me more dependent on my government, not more inclined to turn on my government?”
― The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
― The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
“We’re all scared. We’d be fools if we weren’t.”
― A Clash of Kings
― A Clash of Kings
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