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“Life was growing and spreading here the way a disease propagates and eats and in the eating must kill. There should be something more, he thought. A kind of being might come into the universe that did not want to finally eat everything or to command all or to fill every niche and site with its own precious self. It would be a strange thing, with enough of the brute biology in it to have the quick, darting sense of survival. But it would also have to carry something of the machine in it, the passive and accepting quality of duty, of waiting, and of thought that went beyond the endless eating or the fear of dying. To such a thing the universe would not be a battleground but a theater, where eternal dramas were acted out and it was best to be in the audience. Perhaps evolution, which had been at the beginning a blind force that pushed against everything, could find a path to that shambling, curiously lasting state.”

Gregory Benford

Part 6 “Aleph Null”, Chapter 4 (p. 226)
Against Infinity (1983)

Life , Fear , Disease , Way

“But no, the friend’s indictment was off target; he simply liked them tall, as long as they didn’t slump down in a forlorn effort to appear shorter. It seemed obvious to him that no woman looked good trying to be something she wasn’t.”

Gregory Benford Artifact

Part 2, Chapter 1 (p. 42)
Artifact (1985)

Effort , Appearance

““You’ll never get it to follow orders.”
“Slaves follow orders, Colonel. You want something done a slave can’t, you don’t ask for a slave to do it.””

Gregory Benford

Part 2 “Aleph”, Chapter 3 (p. 68)
Against Infinity (1983)

“Just because something’s crazy, doesn’t mean it’s wrong.”

Gregory Benford Artifact

Part 5, Chapter 1 (p. 228)
Artifact (1985)

“There was something about such reflex stupidity that never failed to irritate him.”

Gregory Benford book Timescape

Source: Timescape (1980), Chapter 17 (p. 231)

Stupidity

“If you were damned certain you weren’t looking for something, there was a very good chance you wouldn’t see it.”

Gregory Benford book Timescape

Source: Timescape (1980), Chapter 25 (p. 305)

Chance

“After weeks of indoor work it actually felt good to be doing something—clean, direct, muscles and mind.”

Gregory Benford book The Sunborn

The Sunborn (2005), Part I, Chapter 4, “Vent R” (p. 38)