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• Learn to overcome the crass demands of flesh and bone, for they warp the matrix through which we perceive the world.
  Extend your awareness outward, beyond the self of body, to embrace the self of group and the self of humanity....
• My gift to industry is the genetically engineered worker, or Genejack.
  Specially designed for labor, the Genejack's muscles and nerves are ideal for his task, and the cerebral cortex has been atrophied so that he can desire nothing except to perform his duties....
• What do I care for your suffering? Pain, even agony, is no more than information before the senses, data fed to the computer of the mind.
  The lesson is simple: you have received the information, now act on it....
• We hold life to be sacred, but we also know the foundation of life consists in a stream of codes not so different from the successive frames of a watchvid.
  Why then cannot we cut one code short here, and start another there?...
• It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks and become one with all the people.
  -- Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Ethics for Tomorrow...
• Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded.
  -- Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Looking God in the Eye...
• Why do you insist that the human genetic code is "sacred" or "taboo"?
  It is a chemical process and nothing more. For that matter -we- are chemical processes and nothing more....
• Technological advance is an inherently iterative process.
  One does not simply take sand from the beach and produce a Dataprobe....
• If our society seems more nihilistic than that of previous eras, perhaps this is simply a sign of our maturity as a sentient species.
  As our collective consciousness expands beyond a crucial point, we are at last ready to accept life's fundamental truth...