Clifford D. Simak, Time Is the Simplest Thing

"We have fallen on hard times of the spirit, with many of the people more concerned with fear of evil than contemplation of the good."

Clifford D. Simak, Time Is the Simplest Thing

"I trade with you my mind."

Clifford D. Simak, Time Is the Simplest Thing

"Has it ever occurred to you that business as you think of it may have outlived its usefulness? Business has made its contribution and the world moves on. Business is just another dodo. . . ."

Clifford D. Simak, Time Is the Simplest Thing

"But the bars that held you, the bars that kept you in were the luxury and soft living. It is hard to walk out on a thing like that"

Clifford D. Simak, Time Is the Simplest Thing

"For it was authority that turned men suspicious and stern-faced. Authority and responsibility which made them not themselves, but a sort of corporate body that tried to think as a corporate body rather than a person."

Clifford D. Simak, Time Is the Simplest Thing