The End of All Things (Old Man's War, #6)

by John Scalzi

“But I have always found that there’s an inverse relationship between the number of people in a room and the amount of useful work that can be done.

“It’s a terrible idea,” Oi said. “It just has the advantage of being better than the other option.”

“And so we learn how simple it is to change the history of the universe,” Sorvalh said. “All you need is for every other thing to have gone so horribly wrong first.”

“I’m a terrific boss, and I’ll brutally sabotage the career of any underling who says different.”