It's not because my mind is made up that I don't want you to confuse me with any more facts. It's because my mind isn't made up. I already have more … - John Brunner

We know, we feel in our guts, that decisions are constantly being made which are going to wreck our ambitions, our dreams, our personal relationships. But the people making those decisions are keeping them secret, because if they don’t they’ll lose the leverage they have over their subordinates.

Did you never hear it said that what sets the genius apart from the plodder is the ability to see what happens and not what he expects to happen?

Your country, mine, every other country in the world, has the same cause and what it does is, it takes people who don’t give a pint of whaledreck for it and sends them off to kill women and children. Yes, it’s the cause of every country on earth! And you know what I call that cause? I call it naked stinking greed.