乔愤怒地说，这些日子之一是，像我这样的人会崛起并推翻你，而稳态机器的暴政终结也将到来。人类价值观，同情和简单温暖的日子将恢复，当发生这种情况时他是否碰巧有一个宽松的邮递。
(One of these days," Joe said wrathfully, "people like me will rise up and overthrow you, and the end of tyranny by the homeostatic machine will have arrived. The day of human values and compassion and simple warmth will return, and when that happens someone like myself who has gone through an ordeal and who genuinely needs hot coffee to pick him up and keep him functioning when he has to function will get the hot coffee whether he happens to have a postcred readily available or not.)