I love superconductors.

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

The witnessing of titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.

One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a book sealed in four plastic envelopes.