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We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans. Noisemaking man.

Every door I pass is one way. So I may as well look around, and see what there is beyond the next door, and the next.

Colonists of, ah, Per Ardua, meet your autonomous colonisation unit!

We're going to bollocks up our second chance at Eden, even before the paint has dried.

An ability to believe in things that weren't true was a powerful tool.

A pioneer family lived beyond the reach of shopping malls ...

When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks.

When you get close enough to someone you're never really alone again.

Two damaged people, thrown together in a hostile world, doing their best. What else was there to life, in the end?

Authority. The antithesis of science.

Our citizens must be protected, even from being dumb, which is not a crime.

Rees, the secret of a Scientist is not what he knows. It's what he asks.

In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.

He took refuge in the concept that sometimes slowest is the fastest in the end.

Life gets boring with only humans to talk to.

A brief life burns brightly.

Rome strikes back!

Wow. Pioneers with ice-cream."
Joshua felt motivated to defend his home. "Well, it doesn't have to be like the Donner Party, Sally-

Space is for the cephalopods, Maura. It never was meant for us.

If something is so far beyond your imagination, it's hard even to fear it.

The ColU, sitting on its tabletop, seemed to Stef to twinkle. 'I'm Colius the Oracle now.

This is a strange situation, sir. Perhaps imagination is what we need.

Which one of you's the bitch?

King said, "Come. Sit. Have some more drinks. Colonel Kalinski, will you sort that out? You

The folk of Hell-Knows-Where by default still thought of themselves as Americans.

This is what I have learned, Malenfant. This is how it is, how it was, how it came to be.

A sentient mind refuses to be confined by the parameters of its programming.

Evaded her, and she sensed they did not believe her

Earth stuff, Mars boy.

The Earth gave you life, gave you food and language and intelligence, and will take you back when you die.

Is it really conceivable, given all of that immensity, all that structure, that we are truly alone? That life emerged here, and nowhere else?

We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.

And there's no such thing as too much back-up.

We are all creatures of logic, at root. Of little switches turning on and off in our heads, metaphorically speaking.

There'll be a sky full of babies and their shit, suspended overhead. You do not want to get caught in that rain when it falls.

And maybe a hundred billion cephalopod minds, out in the Trojans, just light-minutes apart, have become something - "
"Transcendent.

Well, don't stand about like that, man; if you're no use you're certainly no ornament. Bring that in and tell me what it says.

The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.

We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by.

Testing was never going to be fashionable, but you could hardly run a respectable software development shop with no testing effort at all.

Every world needed an artist.

Per ardua ad astra. Through adversity to the stars.