I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
If one must explain a magic trick, one should do so after the show is over.
Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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.
Once every hundred years, the Los Angeles smog rolls away for a single night, leaving the air as clean as interstellar space. That way the gods can see if Los Angeles is still there. If it is, they roll the smog back so they won't have to look at it.