The best way to describe anyone is to give an example of the kind of thing he would do. - Isaac Asimov

You must have minimalism because every change, any change, has myriad side effects that can't always be allowed for. If the change is too great and the side effects too many, then it becomes certain that the outcome will be far removed from anything you've planned and that it would be entirely unpredictable.

It is enough for a Psychohistorian, as such, to know his Biostatistics and his Neurochemical Electromathematics. Some know nothing else and are fit only to be statistical technicians. But a Speaker must be able to discuss the Plan without mathematics.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster." — Isaac Asimov"}