I wrote the first book, ...

I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.
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He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.
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It is a truism that the structure of a society is basically determined by its technology. Not in an absolute sense-there may be totally different cultures using identical tools-but the tools settle the possibilities; you can't have interstellar trade without spaceships. A race limited to a single planet, possessing a high knowledge of mechanics but with its basic machines of industry and war requiring a large capital investment, will inevitably tend toward collectivism under one name or another. Free enterprise needs elbow room.
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I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
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Give fear no hold on you. Keep sinews loose and senses open, ready at every instant to flow with the rush of action.
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