I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

The Product of Freedom and Security is a constant (F X S = k). Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naive.

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

In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

There had been a popular joke on Freedom, started by a man named Calder. Looking down from space, he had said, the dominant life forms on Earth were obviously the cereals and other grasses. They occupied all the most desirable and fertile land; and they had tamed insects and animals to care for them. In particular, they had domesticated the bipeds to nurture and cultivate them and to save and plant their seed. Now, watching the farmers, Alex could easily imagine that they were worshiping and genuflecting before their masters.

In a collaboration, each author will do 75% of the work.