"We have reached an informational threshold which can only be crossed by harnessing the speed of light directly. The quickest computations require the fastest possible particles moving along the shortest paths. Since the capability now exists to take our information directly from photons travelling molecular distances, the final act of the information revolution will soon be upon us."
— Academician Prokhor Zakharov - "For I Have Tasted The Fruit", Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
"Ah, yes, in the wonderful days when computers did whatever the hell you wanted them to, even if it didn't make any sense."
— Linkara, Atop the Fourth Wall: Captain Electron #1
"Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who don't understand it."
— Florence, Freefall, on Clarke's Third Law
Mori: So, this is your magic computer. Orac, isn't it?
Orac: I assume your use of the word "magic" means that I am incomprehensible to you. While that may well be the case, your use of the word is inappropriate.
Mori: What?
Orac: Your use of the word "magic" is inappropriate! I am simply the sum of the thousands of data stores which are available to me.
— Blake's 7, "Volcano"
