In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.

It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state

There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.