First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart.

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

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

In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit it, and it can only be rented, not bought or sold.

You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.

A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.