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.

Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.

Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.

Now I understand,” said the last man.

Open the pod bay doors, Hal.