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

Vernor Vinge
Pain, Deception, Levers
Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.145, Macmillan
Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.