Other people’s jobs always seemed easier than yours until you actually had to do them. - Charles Sheffield

Korin stared. It must be a novelty, finding someone more paranoid than he was.

Captain Roker, I don't like your insinuation," he said. "McAndrew is a physicist—so am I. You may not be smart enough to realize it, but physics is a field of study, not a surgical operation. Castration isn't part of the Ph.D. Exams, you know.

We're just too nosy, Commander," he went on. "Most humans have their patience level set a little too low, and their curiosity a bit too high.