“The best atrocity engineering is conducted, thought Albrecht, never so much by the participant, but by the enabler.”

“It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.”

“We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.”

“Engineers do engineering, i.e. they build bridges. So engineering needs engineers. The economy does NOT need economists. Economists do not make economy, but they try it and that is why we have so much problems with some financial models.”

“Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and perpetrator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself — a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.”

“That din of applause was currently manifest in a mediated form online. “Inside those cubes of the virtual,” thought Albrecht, “is a vaulting collection of hungry ids. All they require is discipline.”