Forward the Foundation (Foundation, #7)

by Isaac Asimov

You must have minimalism because every change, any change, has myriad side effects that can’t always be allowed for. If the change is too great and the side effects too many, then it becomes certain that the outcome will be far removed from anything you’ve planned and that it would be entirely unpredictable.

People tended to avoid the humiliation of failure by joining the obviously winning side even against their own opinions.

My Next Chapter

There was so much more in the past, so much less in the future, that the mind turned away from the looming shadow ahead to contemplate the safety of what had gone before.