If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injust… - Isaac Asimov

What kind of a ridiculous animal are we to be lords of the world after the dinosaurs had failed? Sure, we're intelligent, but what's intelligence? We think it is important because we have it. If the Tyrannosaurus could have picked out the one quality that he thought would ensure species domination, it would be size and strength. And he would make a better case for it. He lasted longer than we're likely to.

Valamilyen garanciára szükségem van.
– Szavamat adom.
– Ami, ugyebár, fölbecsülhetetlen értékű – hajolt meg gúnyosan Pherl –, de azért az ön jelenléte, ugyebár, mégiscsak nagyobb biztosítékot jelentene!

Could he tell her any of this? Of course not. Could he tell her that women almost never qualified for Eternity because, for some reason he did not understand (Computers might, but he himself certainly did not), their abstraction from Time was from ten to a hundred times as likely to distort Reality as was the abstraction of a man.