Most rich people get rich by taking what they want without paying for it. It’s the way of the world. - John Brunner

We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.

"The gray-haired growser, who proved to be a lawyer, had made it clear how much he loathed the people who were, in his view, attempting to undermine the American Constitution by imposing a state religion — or possibly it was "religion state by state," for his argument grew more confused with each Martini he sank. At any rate he was noisily predicting that the result would be world domination by the Communist bloc because they would wind up with a monopoly of practical science while his own people would be reduced to praying, sticking pins in chance-opened Bibles, and casting lots to decide whose eldest son should be sacrificed to stave off disaster."

The sound of a code being broken is usually the same as that of somebody snapping his fingers.