What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

Sometimes a decision has to be made by a single individual, who has the authority to enforce it. That's why you need a captain. You can't run a ship by a committee-at least not all the time.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond the first ape-man. We must contemplate the moment, now irrevocably lost in the mists of time, when the ancestor off all of us came crawling out of the sea.

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. 3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.