What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.

The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

Beaurocracy destroys initiative.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion