Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Thinking is the activity I love best, and writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. I can write up to 18 hours a day. Typing 90 words a minute, I've done better than 50 pages a day. Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up-well, maybe once.

A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.

It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

The Three Theorems of Psychohistorical Quantitivity: The population under scrutiny is oblivious to the existence of the science of Psychohistory. The time periods dealt with are in the region of 3 generations. The population must be in the billions (±75 billions) for a statistical probability to have a psychohistorical validity.

Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.