Brendan

“That’s old thinking,” said the Goblin. “Pillage a town’s gold, and you’ll be rich for a day. Make a town systemically dependent on services that only you provide, and you’ll be rich for a lifetime.”
― J. Zachary Pike, Dragonfired

“Information is not intellect. Computers can contain entire books, too, but they’re not considered intelligent yet. It is one thing to have a repository of data, and quite another to use it, let alone creatively.”
― Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters

“Asa took her arm, gently. “They can’t talk,” he told her. She shook her head as her friends steered her back toward the access bridge. “No, it talked. I heard it.” Note to self: shut up.”
― Martha Wells, Compulsory

“Shane wondered if there was a term for feeling guilty about not feeling sufficiently guilty.”
― T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith