Any other instructions?" "Not without breaking one of my own golden rules. In an unpredictable situation, the man or woman on the spot should make th… - Charles Sheffield

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

That’s the trouble with the younger generation. They don’t understand why a thing can’t be done, so they go ahead and do it.

Nothing was more fascinating than information. It was infinite in quantity, or effectively so, limited only by the total entropy of the universe; it was vastly diverse and various; it was eternal; It was available for collection, anywhere and anytime. And, perhaps best of all, E. C. Tally thought with the largest amount of self-satisfaction that his circuits permitted, you never knew when it might come in useful.