“My childhood friend became a physicist because of a box of Astounding magazine that my mother gave him. And as my oldest friend, who is a nuclear physicist, wrote me a letter six months ago that had one of the greatest sentences in it I have ever read. It said, this is no kidding, nuclear physicist from the University of Washington, Seattle, he said, ‘My time reversal experiments are proceeding more slowly than I had hoped.’”

— Gene Wolf quote