“Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires”

“Anarchy wears two faces, both creator and destroyer. Thus destroyers topple empires; make a canvas of clean rubble where creators then can build another world. Rubble, once achieved, makes further ruins' means irrelevant. Away with our explosives, then! Away with our destroyers! They have no place within our better world. But let us raise a toast to all our bombers, all our bastards, most unlovely and most unforgivable.Let's drink their health... then meet with them no more.”

“Building an empire...one letter in front of the other.”

“All dreams of empire end because day breaks in the hearts of the slaves used to build it.”

“What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.”

“Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.”