Tech did not “roll with” things. For his entire life he’d utilized a shifting hierarchy of algorithmic calculations to determine optimal decisions. Data produced options. Probability presented choices. Choice determined action. Simple.
“This is an important lesson for the galaxy moving forward: there will always be those who are prepared to accelerate the death of democracy if they believe power is being given to someone worthy.”
― Star Wars The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire
― Star Wars The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire
“My job is to protect the Ascendancy and the Chiss people, sir,” he said quietly. “Whatever it costs to achieve that goal, I will pay it.” A chill ran up Ba’kif’s back. Whatever it costs.”
― Lesser Evil
― Lesser Evil
“Next to alcoholism, what intrigued and horrified Rush most in his rounds were the patients locked in the basement cells. He felt immediately that the circumstances these patients lived under were absolutely unacceptable. But the “lunatics,” who most people still viewed as damned rather than diseased, presented a unique and troubling situation. They weren’t truly in the hospital to be treated, because nobody knew for sure what their treatment should be. They were in the basement primarily to keep them safe from society, and society safe from them. The first step in improving their situation would simply involve warehousing them more benevolently. But even that proposition was challenging; nobody seemed to have the slightest idea how to proceed.”
― Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
― Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
“For a Jedi, there are far more dangerous things in this galaxy than the dark side.”
― Tears of the Nameless
― Tears of the Nameless
“He is a parrot legal, one of the few creatures the volcano tolerates near its cone. Perhaps because they are very good at arguing their cases.” “Arguing cases?” she asked blankly. “Parrots are talkative birds, and these ones like to perform legal tasks, though they are neither secretary-birds nor lawyer-birds. They are merely paralegals.”
― Harpy Thyme
― Harpy Thyme
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