“I haven’t changed my mind, if that’s what you’re getting at,” he said at length. The stench and crackle of… — John Brunner

LOGIC   The principle governing human intellection. Its nature may be deduced from examining the following propositions, both of which are held by human beings to be true and often by the same people: “I can’t so you musn’t,” and “I can but you musn’t.”

Isn’t it typical? We train one man—one ordinary, inoffensive, retiring little man—to be an efficient killing machine and he kills the one person who stood a chance of saving us from ourselves!

What in God’s name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?