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Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information.

'It's no wonder the soul cries out. It is a direct assault on everything that makes us human.'

"Many duct-taper jobs are the result of a glitch in the system that no one has bothered to correct—tasks that could easily be automated, for instance, but haven’t been either because no one has gotten around to it, or because the manager wants to maintain as many subordinates as possible, or because of some structural confusion, or because of some combination of the three." good god

"I'm not ready to die yet. Not here, not in hell. Where does your soul go, if you die in hell?"

"And on your own initiative."

"It's the only initiative I acknowledge."

Water so clean you could do lab work with it-- but it had once been piss, and shit, and tears, and blood, and it would be again. The circle of life on Ceres was so small you could see the curve. Miller liked it that way.

the computer man calling the human body "a cave of bone" is the highlight of my morning

Joshua hated it when people kept repeating your name. It was what they did to calm you down when you were a problem.

Call me naïve, but I underestimated the regular person's affinity for sitting in a hard plastic chair and staring at a screen until their eyes crossed.

Honor the steel with deeds, not words.

He thought his sheep could teach him everything, but his sheep couldn't have taught him Arabic.