It is a point of pride for us, military and civilian alike, that we take the utmost care to avoid collateral damage.

The Rev. Mr. Crabb, of Hill, near Southampton, the benevolent reclaimer of the gipsies, calculates that there are in this country upwards of 18,000 of this wandering race, and in other parts of the world 700,000.

But simultaneously, the growing force of her mind's intelligence, wherein was no enthusiasm to misdirect by overcolouring, enabled her to gather more than a suspicion of comparative feebleness in the man stripped of his terrors.

[Vernor] Vinge was among those (along with, notably, Ray Kurzweil) to discuss the transformation of humans by technology, coming in a matter of decades, referred to as the singularity.]