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Dresser pulls off his shades and stomps over to the tech, stepping close so that their faces are mere inches apart. “Why would your stuff survive, while a couple billion dollars of our equipment is now useless?” The tech stands dead still
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“I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
“Moira nodded vigorously. She didn't know what BASIC or COBOL were, except that Wiz said they caused brain damage in those who used them.”
― The Wizardry Compiled
― The Wizardry Compiled
“Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.”
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
“The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”
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“Thing that got me was not her list of things she hated, since she was obviously crazy as a Cyborg, but fact that always somebody agreed with her prohibitions. Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws — always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up. Because not one of those people said: "Please pass this so that I won't be able to do something I know I should stop." Nyet, tovarishchee, was always something they hated to see neighbors doing. Stop them "for their own good" — not because speaker claimed to be harmed by it.”
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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