How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"But the fact is, a one-hundred-percent voluntary alternative to incarceration is the opposite of cruel and unusual. Of all the potential application of Correcktall this is the most humane. This is the liberal vision: genuine, permanent, voluntary self-melioration." (3.759)
There are many people who would whole-heatedly agree with this statement today. To be honest, though, it's a little frightening to us to imagine anyone having this much control over other people's lives.
Quote #5
Between the Four Seasons and the neighboring office tower was a corporate courtyard so lavishly planted and flawlessly maintained that it might have been pixels in a cybershopping paradise. (3.810)
This passage raises an interesting question: Why bother with the messy real world when you can have a perfect digital imitation?
Quote #6
City people had no right to patronize the iron horse. They didn't know it intimately, as Alfred did. They hadn't fallen in love with it out in the northwest corner of Kansas where it was the only link to the greater world, as Alfred had. (4.165)
This is the reason Alfred loves railroads so much. That being said, it's worth remembering that the railroad itself was a mind-blowing technological innovation in its day.