Fear is the brother of hate.

We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

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

The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed, amused; maybe all three. If he quits in the middle, or puts the book down feeling his time has been wasted, you're in violation.

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

Fear is the brother of hate.