He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.
Poul AndersonWhy do people in this age think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?
Poul AndersonIn Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program.
Poul AndersonI have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
Poul Anderson