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.

Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.

Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently.

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

Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.

Consider the true picture. Think of myriads of tiny bubbles, very sparsely scattered, rising through a vast black sea. We rule some of the bubbles. Of the waters we know nothing.

Never be embarrassed or ashamed by anything you choose to write.