▲ | falcor84 3 days ago | |
> Hardin threw himself back in the chair. “You know, that's the most interesting part of the whole business. I admit that I thought his Lordship a most consummate donkey when I first met him – but it turned out that he is an accomplished diplomat and a most clever man. I took the liberty of recording all his statements.” ... “When Houk, 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 that you never noticed.” - "Foundation", Isaac Asimov | ||
▲ | gdulli 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
SHCP (The Salvor Hardin Compression Protocol) | ||
▲ | lo_zamoyski 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Like a script from the pen of Tobias Fünke. |