Cauldron

He was usually easygoing, one of those guys with little respect for authority because of a conviction that people in charge tend to do stupid things.

“It’s all PR,” said Hutchins. “If we ever produced a person who was unrelentingly honest, everybody would want him dead.”

Technological civilizations don’t last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And maybe technology always wins.

“Technology is dangerous.”

“How do you mean?”

“It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.”

If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.

“If some of the current politicians had been around a few thousand years ago,” she’d said, “we never would have gotten out of Africa. Boats cost too much.”