The twentieth century had dispensed with the formal declaration of war and introduced the fifth column, sabotage, cold war, and war by proxy, but that was only the begining. Summit meetings for disarmament pursued mutual understanding and a balance of power but were also held to learn the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy. The world of the war-or-peace alternative became a world in which war was peace and peace war.

Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure.

The number of one's possible fantasies is inversely proportional to the amount of one's liquid assets. For him who has everything dreams are no longer possible.

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

Plentitude, when too plentitudinous, was worst than destitution, for obviously what could one do, if there was nothing one could not?

A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it.