A nuclear blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways. - Isaac Asimov

He never created a finished product. Finished products are for decadent minds.

TRADERS … With psychohistoric inevitability, economic control of the Foundation grew. The traders grew rich; and with riches came power … It is sometimes forgotten that Hober Mallow began life as an ordinary trader. It is never forgotten that he ended it as the first of the Merchant Princes

“That’s The Goose,” he said. The way he said it, I could hear the capitals.
I stared at it. It looked like any other goose, fat, self-satisfied and short-tempered.