His brief and frustrating dialogue with them had convinced him that they must divide the human race into three categories: staff, patients and potent… - John Brunner

Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I know people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.

Few of us are equipped to cope with the complexity and dazzling variety of twenty-first-century existence.

One might as well claim that the tide which rubs pebbles smooth on a beach is doing the pebbles a service because being round is prettier than being jagged. It's of no concern to a pebble what shape it is. But it's very important to a person.