“To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?”

“The Rapture of the Nerds has been followed by the Resurrection of the Extremely Confused. (318)”

“Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.”

“Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.”

“The encapsulated bird your conspirators sent you to fetch. The sterilized male chicken with the Creator DNA sequences. The plot capon. Where is it?”

“Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".”

“Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, “if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?”