“Adventure is just bad planning.”

“I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every difficulty is foreseen, and precautions taken for meeting or avoiding it. Victory awaits him who has everything in order, luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time, this is called bad luck.”

“An die Kälte kann der Mensch sich nicht gewöhnen.”

“There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's a trick that nearly every writer uses, of inserting at least one long, obscure word into each story. This makes the reader think that the man is very wise and clever. So I have the machine do the same thing. There'll be a whole stack of long words stored away just for this purpose."Where?"In the 'word-memory' section," he said, epexegetically.”

“Du kan ikke forsvare drap eller tortur i seg selv, men verden er faktisk slik at noen ganger må du velge det minste av to onder.”

“Menneskets eldste våpen var mennesket selv.”

“There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't met...”