“The past may show the right way to behave if you live in the past, Stil, but circumstances change.”

“It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.”

“It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.”

“I point out to you, Marcus Claire Luyseyal, a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition theusers to employ each other the way they employ machines.”

“Only fools prefer the past!”

“All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every fact—yet the facts are mine to use as I will and, even using them truthfully, I change them.”

“Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.”