You need friends to keep you on your feet, and enemies to keep you on your toes. — Gregory Benford

Quantum uncertainty, chaos—these forever screen precise knowledge of the future from our eyes.

Uncompromising zeal doesn’t look in the mirror much.

“So many people, close-packed.”

“Your kind apparently enjoys the crowding.”

“I…I can sort of see why it might be exciting. Like a never-ending party.”

Speaker grimaced. “Just the sort of horror I imagined, yes.”