“Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.”

“I didn't know that empty rationalization was part of your programming," said Ram. "We would not be fit companions for human beings without it.”

“In the real world irrational things happened, impossible coincidences happened, because probability required that coincidences rarely, but not never, occur.”

“And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?”

“Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.”

“Are you asking us to impregnate all the females on all the ships with your DNA, so that you can be sure of having progeny?""No!" said Ram in horror. "What a terrible thing for a woman, to wake up pregnant- a violation of trust. It would destroy all nineteen colonies.""Not to mention being embarrassing when all the babies look like you.”

“Well, I'm your man. I'm the bloody bastard you wanted when you had me spawned. I'm your tool, and what difference does it make if I hate the part of me that you most need? What difference does it make that when the little serpents killed me in the game, I agreed with them, and was glad.”