"Every kind of skill Civilization knows how to describe is one that thousands or millions of people learn.  She couldn't have been what she was if she'd known how to describe all of what she was doing with no bits left over.  She passed on some of her skills and made the markets themselves better, but Nemamel had no successor and no replacement in the domains she'd mastered most, when she went into" cryosuspension "the deep cold of suspended time, waiting on the Future to awaken her.  It was one of her classic - your language doesn't have the word, an acerbic disclaimer of how far you fell short of your own standards in the course of impressing somebody else - that people who were actually competent and understood what they were doing could just teach their skills to others so everyone would have them.  You only become Nemamel by failing to understand yourself that well, or by being born with good heritage that isn't in the form of anything you really mastered, so why be impressed by that - was her acerbic disclaimer."

"Every kind of skill Civilization knows how to describe is one that thousands or millions of people learn.  She couldn't have been what she was if she'd known how to describe all of what she was doing with no bits left over.  She passed on some of her skills and made the markets themselves better, but Nemamel had no successor and no replacement in the domains she'd mastered most, when she went into" cryosuspension "the deep cold of suspended time, waiting on the Future to awaken her.  It was one of her classic - your language doesn't have the word, an acerbic disclaimer of how far you fell short of your own standards in the course of impressing somebody else - that people who were actually competent and understood what they were doing could just teach their skills to others so everyone would have them.  You only become Nemamel by failing to understand yourself that well, or by being born with good heritage that isn't in the form of anything you hold in your mind's own hands and can teach to others, so why be impressed by that - was her acerbic disclaimer."

"Every kind of skill Civilization knows how to describe is one that thousands or millions of people learn.  She couldn't have been what she was if she'd known how to describe all of what she was doing with no bits left over.  She passed on some of her skills and made the markets themselves better, but Nemamel had no successor and no replacement in the domains she'd mastered most, when she went into" cryosuspension "the deep cold of suspended time, waiting on the Future to awaken her.  It was one of her classic - your language doesn't have the word, an acerbic disclaimer of how far you fell short of your own standards in the course of impressing somebody else - that people who were actually competent and understood what they were doing could just teach their skills to others so everyone would have them.  You only become Nemamel by failing to understand yourself that well, or by being born with good heritage that isn't anything you hold in your mind's own hands and can teach to others, so why be impressed by that - was her acerbic disclaimer."

"Every kind of skill Civilization knows how to describe is one that thousands or millions of people learn.  Nemamel couldn't have been what she was, noticeably better than all her competitors, if she'd known how to describe all of what she was doing with no bits left over.  She passed on some of her skills and made the markets themselves better, but Nemamel had no successor and no replacement in the domains she'd mastered most, when she went into" cryosuspension "the deep cold of suspended time, waiting on the Future to awaken her.  It was one of her classic - your language doesn't have the word, an acerbic disclaimer of how far you fell short of your own standards in the course of impressing somebody else - that people who were actually competent and understood what they were doing could just teach their skills to others so everyone would have them.  You only become Nemamel by failing to understand yourself that well, or by being born with good heritage that isn't anything you hold in your mind's own hands and can teach to others, so why be impressed by that - was her acerbic disclaimer."