You have to live to really know things, my love

I think we've made some good headway in the last seven years. With the experience and what I've learned the last two terms, I'm already on the ground running.

Never negotiate with kids. They don't have life experience, and they don't have repercussions for bad decisions; they still get fed and housed.

Nothing could be done about it—every human above the lowest Dregs’ Hive poverty class had a comlog with biomonitor, many had implants, and each of these was tuned to the music of the datasphere, monitored by elements of the datasphere, dependent upon functions of the datasphere—so humans accepted their lack of privacy.

... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.

Mobs have passions, not brains.