““What happened?”
“Let’s just say my efforts to reprogram the weapon were not an unqualified success, shall we, and leave it at that?” She hated discussing failure almost as much as she hated the thing itself.”

— Alastair Reynolds, book Redemption Ark

Source: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 15 (p. 255)

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