Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers deception when it works is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers deception when it works is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
Vernor Vinge

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All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally we take comfort from this that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good but which simply is.
- Vernor Vinge

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers deception when it works is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all. Vernor Vinge

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers deception when it works is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
Vernor Vinge