Charles Sheffield Quotes

I worry when I hear talk of “this many millions” and “that many billions” from officials who I know have trouble calculating a restaurant tip.

The superior strain of peas is the one whose genetic composition allows it to adapt to whatever environment it is presented with. People are not peas, but in one respect they are not very different from them: some have superior genetic composition to others.

There was one good argument against cloning, and only one. It increased the total number of people, and to me that number already felt far too large.

Not one word of what I’d said had got through to him. It didn’t much matter, I’d really been speaking for the media anyway, but it was a shame to see bigotry masquerading as public-spirited behavior.

When you pay somebody off, it only increases their demands. I know, only too well. They are never satisfied with what they get.