On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor

Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.

Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.

Yes," Vorkosigan agreed, "I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.