Ignorance can’t be pardoned. Only cured. — Robert Silverberg

"Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been."

"It did not seem at all improbable to McCulloch now. The infinite fullness of time brings about everything, he thought: even intelligent lobsters, even a divine octopus."

"Not all lawyers are annoying. Some are dead."

"A man who lies to himself is the worst liar of all."

"If the Government was going to all this trouble to keep people calm, then there had to be something big to worry about. That much was axiomatic."

"But the mighty computer is stupid. Thinking with the speed of light but unable to cross the gaps of intuition."