"One of the advantages to being in a new field of business is that if you show up every day and don't screw up too badly, you stand a good chance of setting a record, every month."
Terry Carr, the Ace paperback editor, used to joke that if the Bible had been published as science fiction, it would have had to be cut down to two volumes of twenty thousand words each; the Old Testament would have been re-titled "Master of Chaos,", and the New Testament "The Thing With Three Souls."
I Am Alive And You Are Dead; A Journey Into The Mind Of Phillip K. Dick
[H]history suggests that one is not well advised to bring a spreadsheet to a gun fight.http://speedbird.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/on-systems-and-what-they-do/