The Cosmic Computer Quotes

“If you want to make an omelet, you have to break eggs.”
― H. Beam Piper, The Cosmic Computer

“To argue with those who have renounced the use and authority of reason is as futile as to administer medicine to the dead.”
― H. Beam Piper, The Cosmic Computer

“Young Mr. Conn Maxwell, who has just returned from Terra, needs no introduction to any of you," he began. Then, having established that, he took the next ten minutes to introduce Conn.”
― H. Beam Piper, The Cosmic Computer

“In a religious community, the village atheist keeps his doubts to himself.”
― H. Beam Piper, The Cosmic Computer

“The fountains are dusty in the Graveyard of Dreams; The hinges are rusty, they swing with tiny screams.”
― H. Beam Piper, The Cosmic Computer