Apparently, Arthur C. Clarke... a lot. I copied nearly a chapter of a story I've written, and it came up Clarke 3 out of 4 times. Vladimir Nabokov was the other one....

Let me try another story.

A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich