Dark Side of the Sun
He stifled the urge to look around. Korodore has schooled him unmercifully in assassination drill. Know who was your assassin was small reward for being assassinated. Korodore said, ‘The price of curiosity is a terminal experience.’ (DSS)
Some kinds of simplicity cost more than others. (DSS)
'... a student of probability soon realizes that by its nature the billion-to-one chance crops up nine times out of ten, and that the greatest odds boils down to a double-sided statement: it will happen, or it will not.' (DSS)
'I don’t begin to understand,’ he said, flatly. ‘To me it sounds like Jargon.’
‘JARGON?’
Hrsh-Hgn turned to the Bank. ‘Nonsense,’ he explained. ‘In Sadhimist tradition God invented it to foresstall the firsst attempt at intersstellar travel. To prevent scientissts from understanding each other, you understand.' (DSS)
‘... I get the horrible feeling that we live in a big ever-repeating circle where we do things because it is predicted that we will do things - all effect and no cause.’ (DSS)
Do you not say ‘the world of the common wasp’, or ‘the world of the poet’? They are worlds, and only incidentally include some reference to a physical reality like a planet. (DSS)
‘Humanity is a state of mind, not body.’ (DSS)
‘I don’t seem to be achieving anything, but I must keep trying otherwise what is free will for?’ (DSS)
‘You know where you are with big-brained monsters, but gods are another matter.’ (DSS)
And the Sabalos family was rich - so rich, in fact, that it could afford the simple life. (DSS)
‘... the universe has no time for life. By rights it shouldn’t exist. We don’t realize the odds.’ (DSS)
Some kinds of simplicity cost more than others. (DSS)
'... a student of probability soon realizes that by its nature the billion-to-one chance crops up nine times out of ten, and that the greatest odds boils down to a double-sided statement: it will happen, or it will not.' (DSS)
'I don’t begin to understand,’ he said, flatly. ‘To me it sounds like Jargon.’
‘JARGON?’
Hrsh-Hgn turned to the Bank. ‘Nonsense,’ he explained. ‘In Sadhimist tradition God invented it to foresstall the firsst attempt at intersstellar travel. To prevent scientissts from understanding each other, you understand.' (DSS)
‘... I get the horrible feeling that we live in a big ever-repeating circle where we do things because it is predicted that we will do things - all effect and no cause.’ (DSS)
Do you not say ‘the world of the common wasp’, or ‘the world of the poet’? They are worlds, and only incidentally include some reference to a physical reality like a planet. (DSS)
‘Humanity is a state of mind, not body.’ (DSS)
‘I don’t seem to be achieving anything, but I must keep trying otherwise what is free will for?’ (DSS)
‘You know where you are with big-brained monsters, but gods are another matter.’ (DSS)
And the Sabalos family was rich - so rich, in fact, that it could afford the simple life. (DSS)
‘... the universe has no time for life. By rights it shouldn’t exist. We don’t realize the odds.’ (DSS)
