Nobody got murdered before lunch. But nobody. People weren't up to it. You needed a good lunch to get both the blood-sugar and blood-lust levels up.

Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood...

I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.

When the girl sitting at the next table looked away from a moment, Dirk leaned over and took her coffee. He knew that he was perfectly safe doing this because she would simply not be able to believe that this had happened.

The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it.