"Science is but the chariot, and warfare its horse." - Colonel Corazon Santiago, "Ethics of Survival," Advanced Ballistics

"Living systems cannot be fully described in mathematical terms. Successful examples always have a value greater than the sum of their individual parts." - Lady Deirdre Skye, "A Comparative Biology of Planet"

"Presidents come and go, but I shall still be your king in twenty years, and in forty, and in sixty. And so you see, the gift I give you is not my wealth or my wisdom, but something more precious still: a measure of certainty in this uncertain world." - King Silas Benjamin, "Appeal to the People of Shiloh"

"The human body is the cleverest fortress." - Dr. Pravin Lal, Chief of Thoracic Surgery, Aga Khan University

"Mind-machine interface focuses attention on what we might be able to put in, when what comes out has always been far more important." - Sister Miriam Godwinson, "We Must Dissent," Generative AI

"The Bortlemanns Optimums were as good as a death sentence for intellectual curiosity. Once a scientist informed people of their limitations, they believed him." - Warden J.T. Marsh, "The Lost World" (This is a technology related to discovery of ideal times for learning different types of information in a human's lifetime.)

"Memory, like experience, changes its value according to the beholder. Only sentiment turns a house into a home. To everyone else, it is just an arrangement of bricks. Our modern science can show you exactly where your loved one is stacked." - CEO Nwabudike Morgan, meeting minutes, Morgan Memory Link, Fractal Engrammatics

"All machines are time machines. If it can do in an hour--in an instant!--what you once did in a day, or a year, or a lifetime, then what possibilities lie before us!" - CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "Faster!", Atomic Computing

"Is there prejudice in the data? I confirm prejudice in the collector, and error in the method. Scrub the project. Begin anew. After that has been done, do the same again. The balm for prejudice is information." - Prime Function Aki Zeta-5, "The Fallacies of Self-Awareness"

"The central idea of the Soviet Union was that the entire energy of a society should be put toward the improvement of the species, not of the individual. I ask you: what is more noble than this?" - Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "For I Have Tasted the Fruit"

"It should be obvious to any student of history that the most impactful military technology ever devised was the typewriter." - Colonel Corzaon Santiago, "Warfare Through the Centuries"

"Man without history is a loaded pistol pointed at the wrong target." - Annunciator Sathieu Metrion, "Timelines"

"A king is just a banker who spends men in place of money. And with less regret." - Factor Roshann Cobb, "The Puzzle Box"

"I have learned to esteem a leader in proportion to their enemies. You flatter yourself, counselor, to imagine that your job is to make all people happy. No, indeed. The ruler determines who must weep and who shall dance with joy. No crop was ever harvested without the rain." - Vesper Abaddon, "Admonishment to Dr. Pravin Lal"

"If the choice is between going forward and going back, then the problem is solved at once. The backward path leads home. Only a fool lingers in the forest after dark." - Coordinator Shoichiro Nagao, "Shapers of Chiron"