Quotes About Trust

The Belt, for all its lonely reaches—or because of them—was as neighborly as a village. They gossiped among themselves, by suit radio. Out in the shining blackness it was good to know that, if something went wrong, there was a man listening not five hundred miles away who would come and investigate if you broke off and did not answer.

Any man who would take money two ways would take it three ways just as quickly.

Me, I had never been sure – only thing I was sure of was that Dr. Chan would not himself sit on a target. But he might not warn his old mother.

Minds me of a married woman who was very proud of her virtue. She slept with other men only when her husband was away.

Until a person, man or woman, has enjoyed this treasure bathed in the mutual bliss of minds linked as closely as bodies, that person is still as virginal and alone as if he has never copulated.

A credit card is a leash around your neck. In the world of credit cards a person has no privacy…or at best protects her privacy only with great effort and much chicanery. Besides that, do you ever know what the computer network is doing when you poke your card into a slot? I don't. I feel much safer with cash. I've never heard of anyone who had much luck arguing with a computer.

The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable—from table tapping to the superiority of their children—has never been plumbed.

was the sort of jerk who would entice a young girl with candy and consider it a smart operation.

Manuel, on some subjects I don't trust even myself. Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.' We are not yet free nor will we be as long as anyone—even our ally Mike—controls our news. Someday I hope to own a newspaper independent of any source or channel. I would happily set print by hand, like Benjamin Franklin.

First, I want your solemn oath not even to talk in your sleep about this job. If my simple word is not good, is my oath better?

The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable

A credit card is a leash around your neck. In the world of credit cards a person has no privacy…

Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

I don't know. I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth—then shut up. It

So far as I have listened, before a revolution can take place, the population must lose faith in both the police and the courts.

When will I learn? Had Boss wished to disclose the method, he would have told me. "Careless slips sink ships." Not around Boss.)

If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with sense of humor.

I can think of no surer way to destroy confidence at our most critical period than by having a leader who wears a mask.

If a captain worries about the safety of his command, those under him need not worry.

Where you go, I go. Today and to the end of our lives. Unless you tell me to get out, that you don't want me anymore. I have spoken." "You certainly have, dear. Hilda?

cats make good neighbors.

Zeb should command while Jacob handled space-time controls—to each his own. Jacob had asked me to please take orders from Zeb with no back talk … which had miffed me a little.

If you're going to be businessmen, don't confuse the vocation with larceny.

Boss, there ain't no such animal as a well-documented conspiracy.