“But things don't just fall apart. People break them.”
Robin Wasserman (1978) American writer of speculative fiction for young people
Source: The Book of Blood and Shadow
“Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.”
— Vernor Vinge, book A Deepness in the Sky
A Deepness in the Sky (1999)
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