It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.

Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape

The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time—

It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again.

The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening.

Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots that could do the job. They were self-reproducing robots too. They showed up and worked generation after generation; give them 3000 calories a day and a few amenities, a little time off, and a strong jolt of fear, and you could work them at almost anything. Give them some ameliorative drugs and you had a working class, reified and coglike.

Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every breath gives something back