“Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.”

“Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw”

“Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.”

“Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor.”

“I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.”

“Everybody lies about sex.”

“The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge . . . and stronger.”