Humans are almost always lonely.
From Hellstrom’s Hive Manual. The significant evolutionary achievement of the insects, more than a hundred million years ago, was the reproductive neuter. This fixed the colony as the unit of natural...
Emotions are the curse of logic.
Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at...
Bir geceyi uyanık geçirmek, ömre bir gün eklemektir.
Bilo koja staza koja sužava mogućnosti u budućnosti može postati smrtonosna klopka. Ljudi ne krče sebi put kroz labirint; oni pretražuju širok horizont ispunjen jedinstvenim pojavama.
Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.
You can not go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.
It is far better to win a battle through skilled leadership and wise decisions than violence and bloodshed. It may not seem as glorious to the uninitiated, but in the end it results in fewer wounds--o...
Какво има между едно и осем, освен две, три, четири, пет, шест и седем?— Безкрайност — отвърна Кейлбанът. — Отворена система. Нищо съдържа всичко. Всичко съдържа нищо.
Who asks for justice? We make our own justice.
Where is the weapon with which I enforce your bondage? You give it to me every time you open your mouth.
We pray to a moon: she is round— Luck with us will then abound, What we seek for shall be found In the land of solid ground.
We have a disturbed relationship with our past which religion cannot explain. We are primitive in unexplainable ways, our lives woven of the familiar and the strange, the reasonable and the insane.
Većina ljudi nije dovoljno jaka za pronalaženje slobode u sebi.
To the east, the night grew a faggot of luminous grey, then seashell opalescence that dimmed the stars. There came the long, bell-tolling movement of dawn striking across a broken horizon.
To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.
They who learn the lesson of self-deception too well shall perish by that deception.
They were undoubtedbly sincere in subscribing to the argument that nuclear weapons were a reserve held for one purpose: defense of humankind should a threatening 'other intelligence' ever be encounter...
The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows—a wall against the wind. This is the willow’s purpose.