"Remember, I am not in fact, by Civilization's standards, a great experimentalist, a famous analyst, the one who brings the light of cause-selection to the world."
"I'm a teenager what got tossed into another universe, is what I am."
"Everything I'm teaching you is what Civilization makes sure to teach all of the eight-year-olds, so they'll be able to read the newspapers when they grow up."
"I mean, not literally. Not literally actually. Not every eight-year-old has read a couple of novels in which the protagonist has to improvise scalable production of sulfuric acid, in which, unfortunately, most of the memorable drama was about safety precautions obviated for us by Resist Energy (Acid). I know more than the bare basics, in a few places, because I thought they seemed cool to know."
"But definitely everything we've been covering today has been like that."
"There's a saying out of dath ilan, professional specialization is what grownups do when they actually want results. But don't go setting your eyes on a specialist's glory just yet. Let's all get to the eight-year-old generalist level first."