Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers ... What they really hate are lousy programmers.

Think of it as evolution in action.

God was knocking, and he wanted in bad.

Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.

Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.

A ramrobot had been the first to see Mount Lookitthat. Ramrobots had been first visitors to all the settled worlds. The interstellar ramscoop robots, with an unrestricted fuel supply culled from interstellar hydrogen, could travel between stars at speeds approaching that of light.

Matthew Leiah Keller sat beneath a watershed tree and brooded. Other children played all around him, but they ignored Matt. So did two teachers on monitor duty. People usually ignored Matt when he wanted to be alone. Uncle Matt was gone. Gone to a fate so horrible that the adults wouldn't even talk about it.