Ryan Rominger

“Want to control a people? Teach them to think of themselves as victims. Tell them they have an enemy, and that enemy is responsible for all their woes. It doesn’t have to be a real enemy; it doesn’t even have to make sense. Just tell it to them often enough, and they will come to believe it. Once they do, you can rob them of their money, time, and freedom, so long as you keep their eyes fixed on the ‘enemy’ you have created for them.”
― Aaron Lee Yeager, Kharmic Rebound

“There is no such thing as too much lace on your underwear,” Zurra explained. “Do you know who said that? George Washington.”
― Aaron Lee Yeager, Kharmic Rebound

“If we don't end war, war will end us.”
― H.G. Wells

“Although Artificial Intelligence has been successfully developed several thousand times over the course of known history, each time it was abandoned almost immediately, because it was utter crap. Tools are useful precisely because they are not intelligent. A toaster is useful because it makes toast every time it is asked to. When you develop a toaster that questions its own existence and isn’t in the mood to make toast this morning, all you have created is a less-useful toaster.”
― Aaron Lee Yeager, Kharmic Rebound