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• Life is merely an orderly decay of energy states, and survival requires the continual discovery of new energy to pump into the system.
  He who controls the sources of energy controls the means of survival....
• Planet's Primary, Alpha Centauri A, blasts unimaginable quantities of energy into space each instant, and virtually every joule of it is wasted entirely.
  Incomprehensible riches can be ours if we can but stretch our arms wide enough to dip from this eternal river of wealth....
• Energy is the currency of the future.
  -- CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly...
• We estimate that during the next mission century most of Planet's industries will be moved off-planet to Nessus Prime and other orbital facilities.
  Many of our industries will benefit greatly from the low gravity environments available in space, particularly those involving genetically engineered microbes....
• Of course we'll bundle our MorganNet software with the new network node
  our customers expect no less of us. We have never sought to become a monopoly....
• Fossil fuels in the last century reached their extreme prices because of their inherent utility
  hey pack a great deal of potential energy into an extremely efficient package....
• Our first challenge is to create an entire economic infrastructure, from top to bottom, out of whole cloth.
  No gradual evolution from previous economic systems is possible, because there IS no previous economic system....
• Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary, but competition for limited resources remains a constant.
  Need as well as greed have followed us to the stars, and the rewards of wealth still await those wise enough to recognize this deep thrumming of our common pulse....
• The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing.
  Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine....