« The oracle engine is a bridge – and I mean that in two ways. Like the bridge of a ship, its power can be used to command the whole of the Dreaming City…and like a bridge across a chasm, it links worlds together. »
“We created the Oracle in communion with the Ancients. It was our invention, and ours alone. The Ahamkara had nothing to do with it”
« I’m told that before the Collapse, humans invented mechanical models of this solar system. This is no model. Models are static. They do nothing but mimic an idea. This Oracle – it creates ideas. »