"Onward, and up, and up again, until the impossible was achieved, all barriers were broken, all pains conquered, all abilities possessed. Until all was lightning and no darkness left."
- Gordon R. Dickson
"It was the centuries-old battle of man to keep his race alive and push forward into the future, the ceaseless, furious struggle of that beastlike, god-like—primitive, sophisticated—savage and civilize..."
"Now our world is at the present time firmly in the grip of a mechanical monster, whose head - if you want to call it that - is the World Engineer's Complex. That monster is opposed to us and can keep ..."
"Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it."
"Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?"
"There never was a throne yet built so high that it could not be rocked by laughter from below."
"Man with a crossbow in the proper position at the proper time’s worth a corps of heavy artillery half an hour late and ten miles down the road from where it should be."
"Facing facts is definitely preferable to facing defeat."