QUOTABLE LINES (EN) =================== Free to use in synopses, standfirsts, podcast descriptions, or review texts. Please credit the author; the source (manuscript, essay) is welcome but not required. The short quotations below may be used without prior authorisation with author credit. Longer manuscript excerpts are shared by arrangement according to the purpose of the piece. "A dispute over a statute is also a dispute over time, information asymmetry, reputation, exhaustion, or willingness to bear risk." — Strategy of dispute, web "A place one can leave without anyone noticing." — The Consultant, chapter 1 (Andreas) "I write about systems that describe an event precisely — and still miss the truth." — authorial statement "Frame first. Move second. Without the right frame, even a good legal argument tends to miss." — method, web "What from the consultant's view is a line in a table is, from another perspective, a whole life." — The Consultant, annotation "What is lost from a person when a system can count them precisely — but does not know how to ask why they exist." — Translation of Reality "A tragedy caused by precision, not by malice. Four people acting correctly inside their own systems." — Without Intent "Andreas was small. Until he wasn't." — The Consultant, chapter 1