[LinesFromBooks] "The more clever the praxis became, the less people understood it and the more dependent they became on us- and they didn't like that at all."

>We, the theors, who had retreated (or, depending on how you liked your history, been herded) into the maths at the Reconstitution, had the power to change the physical world through praxis. Up to a point, ordinary people liked the changes we made. But the more clever the praxis became, the less people understood it and the more dependent they became on us- and they didn't like that at all. Anathem, by Neal Stephenson, p. 439