Quotes
Tritt listened placidly, clearly understanding nothing, but content to be listening; while Odeen, transmitting nothing, was as clearly content to be lecturing.
p. 82
Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.
p. 25
“My field of specialization is the mathematical analysis of social structure.”
“Sounds horrible.”
p. 87
It’s a dull world, full of farms and with lots of cattle, both four-legged and two-legged.
p. 90
“That’s an amusing thought, if you’ll consider it.”
“Do you find everything amusing?”
“Why not? As an attitude toward life, it’s an amusing one. It’s the only adjective that will fit. Observe the universe, young man. If you can’t force amusement out of it, you might as well cut your throat, since there’s damn little good in it.”
p. 51
This sounded promising, and my coefficient of cupidity jumped several points.
p. 705
There may be a moral here. For the life of me I can't find it.
p. 529
Now there are some forms of apparel that may be worn or discarded as the fancy pleases with no other ill effects than a possible loss of social prestige. But spacesuits are not among them.
p. 184
He was suddenly struck by an idea so brilliant that he was quite sure it could not possibly work.
p. 166
Purvis looked at him as though seeing something that had no right to be around in a world that had invented penicillin.
p. 247
Somewhere back at the beginning I was chosen to be Jester, and there is only one Jester at a time in Diaspar. Most people think that is one too many.
p. 33
He saw the humorous aspect of everything, which is the real test of the tragic sense.
p. 29
