“One cannot take a coward on dangerous missions or trust one’s fortune to a fool. How then are cowards and fools to be employed?”
Donald Kingsbury“Contradictions do not perplex the logician. They arise because there are more rules to an open game than can be known.”
Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite“Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back. Sometimes the problem has mutated or disappeared. Often it is still there as strong as it ever was.”
Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite“One cannot take a coward on dangerous missions or trust one’s fortune to a fool. How then are cowards and fools to be employed?”
Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite“Whosoever insists on winning must play at trivial games”
no interesting victory is ever assured.