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• 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....
• 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...
• 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...
• Hackers have better software tools.
• The stone age was marked by man's clever use of crude tool
  he information age, to date, has been marked by man's crude use of clever tools....
• 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...
• From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, we are all tools of the Conspiracy...
• It is through the use of logic and of precise, careful measurement that we become aware of our progress.
  Without such tools, we have no reference points to indicate how far we have advanced or retreated....
• 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?...