Greg Bear

Information can be stored even more compactly than in molecular memory. It can be stored in the structure of space-time. What is matter, after all, but a standing-wave of information in the vacuum?

Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten.

It was in the blood, the flesh,

And now it is forever.

He may not have had time, but even allowing him the time, Vergil simply did not think such things through. Brilliant in the creation, slovenly in the consideration of consequences.

But wasn’t that true of every creator?

Didn’t anyone who changed things ultimately lead some people—perhaps many people—to death, grief, torment?

Can’t own a woman, Mike. Wonderful companions, can’t own them.