“Luisa chuckled. "I hear you, sugar. I’m not gonna say you’re wrong. But I have to warn you that this is the word—‘politics'—that nerds use whenever they feel impatient about the human realities of an organization.””

—  Neal Stephenson , book Seveneves

“Day 700"
Seveneves (2015), Part Two

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