What purpose and will didn’t tell you, unfortunately, was how to do something that must be done. - Charles Sheffield

Some of the Argos Group records are awful strange. If I had to guess, I’d say there’s fiddlin’ going on that don’t sound like violins.

That’s the trouble with the younger generation. They don’t understand why a thing can’t be done, so they go ahead and do it.

Once you were committed to a course of action, you didn’t waste your time looking back and second-guessing the decision, because every action in life was taken on the basis of incomplete information. You looked at what you had, and you did all you could to improve the odds; but at some point you had to roll the dice—and live or die with whatever you had thrown.