# Quote — Jack Vance, The Pnume

> Surveillance portended unpleasant events: this on Tschai was an axiom of existence.

- Author: [Jack Vance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance.md)
- Book: [The Pnume](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-pnume.md)
- Page: 419
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Vance#The_Pnume_(1970)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-pnume/surveillance-portended-unpleasant

## More from this book

> “It goes to demonstrate,” said Reith, “that you can’t judge a man by the table he sets.”
>
> Cauch asked shrewdly, “How then can a man judge his fellows? For example, what is the basis of your calculation?”
>
> “Only one thing I know for certain,” said Reith. “First thoughts are always wrong.”

p. 497 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-pnume/it-goes-to-demonstrate.md)