Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.

Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they don't know what the laws of nature are.

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

They absorb carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. What could be more desirable? And they look good in the bargain. Stop chopping down the rain forests and plant more saplings, and we're on our way.

Scientists expect to be improved on and corrected; they hope to be

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.