Vernor Vinge Quote

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

Chapter 14 (p. 145) - A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)

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

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

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

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