“One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.”

“So much technology, so little talent.”

“Tycoon had a peddler's talent for using words to redefine reality.”

“Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.”

“Though his invention worked superbly [...] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end.”

“[He] was an insect wandering in the cathedral his mind had become.”

“Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.”