“I've invented a new definition for TV,” he muttered gloomily. “I've decided it’s a device for hindering… — Arthur C. Clarke

A century ago we came to your world and saved you from self-destruction. I do not believe that anyone would deny that fact—but what that self-destruction was, you never guessed.

"All political problems," Karellen had once told Stormgren, "can be solved by the correct application of power"

A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.