He made time travel sound almost like hide-and-seek or capture the flag or some other spylike game--only with higher stakes and greater consequences.

...is any history really all that ancient?...Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?

Ah, but is any history really all that ancient?' Second asked. 'Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?' This man was more annoying than any history teacher Jordan had ever had.

The truth is, time travel is hard, and people are lazy.

If your business plan depends on suddenly being "discovered" by some big shot, your plan will probably fail. Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Things are made slowly and in pain.

Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity.

I want to make my own movie.

Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.

Money is central to our lives. Yet money is not of central importance. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the lasting values that make life worth living.

This loving person is a person who abhors waste - waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.

The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.

The night is there, we're trying to ignore the night, the night was always there as children.

Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are

You just chip away until the puzzle is complete.