"As befits a binational organization that is half theoretical research program and half secret warfighting executive, Project SANDMAN organizes and utilizes its vast resources in a seemingly chaotic and contradictory fashion. In a war against the beings that created humanity's organizing behaviors, however, it pays to keep things mixed up."
Kenneth Hite, GURPS Horror: The Madness Dossier
"This is what you people learned from the German Nazis after the war, yes? They called it Operation Paperclip? While our Soviet comrades were busy shooting Nazis, you took these fascist monsters in, gave them wealth and comfortable homes and new names and the power to continue their vile research."
"If it seems like the present conditions are inevitably set up to lead to decline and collapse ... well, we've run dozens of pure computer simulations before the addition of the sensory deprivation technology/sonic meditation allowing human subjects to enter the simulation ... and 99.8% of them ended in some kind of total societal collapse between the years 2020 and 2050."
"He's a godsend, that Carson," the older gent says, "He's absolutely pitched right down the middle, he hits every goddamn adult demographic, it doesn't matter whether they're swingers in Glendale or the Smiths and Joneses in Peoria. It's uncanny. I'm sure your own movement's messaging that night synergized well with the subliminals in the 11:30-12:30 commercial time slot. Carson is ... well, he's a fantastic venue."
"When I saw the response to The Limits to Growth last year, when I saw how virulently people in the West responded to the idea of arresting their own insane quest for constant growth and economic exploitation, it really opened my eyes as to how difficult it is going to be to get people in the West to stop the endless extraction of resources from the developing world."
"So in the years following World War II, as SANDMAN pivoted off of computing advances made during the war in cryptography, computer-aided weaponry and war planning, someone in SANDMAN's linguistics division got the bright idea to investigate the possibility of programming a computer to devise a constructed language that would have no Anunnaki-tainted linguistic antecedents."
"The British Sandmen take a different approach. All of the British Project staff have cover assignments and work from those facilities: memeticists work out of GCHQ in Cheltenham; commandos train and base with the SAS at Hereford; scholars and researchers use labs and studies in Cambridge and Oxford; psychologists practice at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in north London; and more specialized personnel work from anonymous, rented offices in London’s Docklands."
“I have to imagine it’s some kind of an in-joke with someone. Hat on a hat, otherwise. Anyway — it must be some kind of place, right? Either a … community where she might find the girl—ah, Charley’s—actual mother. Or a facility, where she might be able to sneak into the files, or … meet her in common sessions. Why do you think she’s doing it?”