Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.

There's nothing quite so stultifying as having someone around who has all the answers-and gives them to you.

Pioneering basically amounts to finding new and more horrible ways to die

Science is not a sacred cow-but there are a large number of would-be sacred cowherds busily devoting quantities of time, energy and effort to the task of making it one, so they can be sacred cowherds.

That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.

Immunity corrupts; absolute immunity corrupts absolutely.

Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence.