“With a brain working and a body working one could keep step with the crowd and never be found out for the hollow machine, lacking the essential thing, that one was conscious of being.”
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ”
“My body was a machine, plain and simple. I worked it to stay strong; I fed it to keep it running.”
“Being a scrub was undesirable and hard work, living in crowded conditions with no privacy and just being one of many. Undistinguishable.”
“No one ever complained about a fat brain. No one ever accused their brain of being too short or too tall, too wide or too narrow. Or ugly. It either worked or it didn't, and mine worked just fine.”
“Oh, by the way, you left out one step in the plan.""What step was that?""The one where we pray this works, Admiral.”