When Holk, after two days of steady work, succeeded in eliminating meaningless statements, vague gibberish, useless qualifications -- in short, all the goo and dribble -- he found he had nothing left. Everything canceled out. "Lord Dorwin, gentlemen, in five days of discussion didn't say one damned thing, and said it so you never noticed."

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.