"[...] You want it to not fuck up? Then don't let it. Take some ownership of it. Shape things. Talk to people. Organize. That's where we fucked up last time, we just burned everything down, didn't plan for afterwards. [...]"
"Grids. He was right. About us not knowing what came next. That's why all this failed. We didn't have any vision, did we? Just some belief and some ideals. But no way of, y'know, making something solid out of them. No organizing, no planning. Instead we ended up just scrabbling around, trying to fi…
"Well, what did you think was going to happen? After you broke everything? Really? What did you think? That everything would magically take care of itself? That this network of yours would somehow provide all the answers?"
"We didn't pretend to have answers. Not for everything. That wasn't what …
[...] Decades of studying and picking apart the supply-chain networks - their vast spaces, both digital and very real - and now what he really wanted was to see them dead. As endlessly intoxicating as they were in their scale and grandeur, he could see Simon had grown disgusted by them; by the endl…
[...] Ningo was one of China's many input/output gates, Rush remembers reading somewhere - the rest of the world sent ships full of coal here, and in return got back ships full of cheap consumer goods. This was why the supply chains existed, in order to make transactions that logic dictated were mo…
