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“In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug.”

“Making people change because you can’t deal with who they are isn’t how it’s supposed to be done. What needs to be done is for people to pull their heads out of their asses. You say ‘cure.’ I hear ‘you’re not human enough.’”

“Attempting to use a biological agent against your enemy while avoiding its effects on you is like trying to use a grenade by holding onto it and hoping all the shrapnel flies in the direction of the person you want to kill.”

“If we stand right here, a little under a thousand years from now, we’ll be standing in front of a really good curry stand I know, and it’d be a good thing, because by then we’ll be hungry.”

“Maybe it’s true that an infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of keyboards will eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare. But you’d go mad reading all of their rough drafts, just as you’d go mad reading Scrabble as if the words have meaning.”