“The bureaucrat was sensitive to this kind of friction. It arose wherever the moving edge of technology control touched on local pride.”

— Michael Swanwick , book Stations of the Tide

Source: Stations of the Tide (1991), Chapter 1, “The Leviathan in Flight” (p. 14)

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