Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and least expensive manipulation of all. (Vernor Vinge)

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and least expensive manipulation of all.

Vernor Vinge

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