# Quote — Charles Sheffield, The Compleat McAndrew

> The Asteroid Belt contains everything from substantial bodies like Ceres, seven hundred and fifty kilometers across, all the way down to house-sized boulders, pebbles, and grains of sand. One good rule of thumb is that for every object of a given size, there will be ten times as many one-third that size.

- Author: [Charles Sheffield](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield.md)
- Book: [The Compleat McAndrew](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/the-compleat-mcandrew.md)
- Page: 335
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Sheffield#The_Compleat_McAndrew_(2000)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/the-compleat-mcandrew/the-asteroid-belt

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> As usual he looked tired, but that was normal. Geniuses worked harder than anyone else, not less hard.

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> The mills of bureaucracy may or may not grind fine, but they certainly grind exceeding slow.

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> The first space colonies had been conceived as utopias, planned by Earth idealists who wouldn’t learn from history. New frontiers may attract visionaries, but more than that they attract oddities. Anyone who is more than three sigma away from the norm, in any direction, seems to finish out there on the frontier. No surprise in that. If a person can’t fit, for whatever reason, he’ll move away from the main group of humanity. They’ll push him, and he’ll want to go.

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