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To a political mind, everything is politics.

When you got right down to it, every important decision in life was made with inadequate information.

“We’re just too nosy, Commander,” he went on. “Most humans have their patience level set a little too low, and their curiosity a bit too high.”

What does one do when a madman suggests an appealing course of action? One worries—but probably goes along with it.

A long time ago humans talked of terraforming Mars and Venus, but we never did it. Just too busy blowing ourselves up, I guess, ever to get round to it.

Sometimes wealth and power merely created the desire for more of the same.

Mathematics is universal. But very little else is.

“I’ve been testing Kallen’s Law—my name for it, not his. Remember what he said? ‘Anything that can be put into a data bank by one person can be taken out of it by another, if you’re smart enough and have enough time.’ That’s one problem with a computer-based society, and one reason why computers were so tightly controlled on Pentecost: it’s almost impossible to prevent access to computer-stored information.”

You can learn more about a person by watching them eat one meal than by listening to them speak for a whole day.

Everyone was polite; no one was happy.

But humans had to learn to ignore appearance. No two beings who shared common thinking processes and common goals should be truly alien to each other.

But mere plausibility did not make the statement true.