“It struck me as I waited that all great enterprises are about logistics. Not genius or inspiration or flights of imagination, skill or cunning, but logistics. Building pyramids or landing spacecraft on Jupiter or invading whole continents or painting divine scenes over the roofs of chapels: logistics.”

— Tom McCarthy (writer) , book Déjà vu

Source: Remainder (2005), Ch. 11.

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