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

How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?

I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.

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

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim