- "I need not tell you that right now there are all the necessary means to create a decent world. The chief obstacles are ignorance; greed; militarism; nationalism; and the violence that stems either from a psychotic impulse to destruction, or from a feeling of inferiority and a desire for revenge."

- It is painful to hear the same arguments now that we’re used to justify the two great wars [WWI and WWII]-and along with them the same half truths, and probably some of the same lies". [Note: Richter died in 1985. He did not make it to Iraq, Afghanistan, Rumsfeld, Cheney and the Great "W".]

- In spite of the great development of information services the world has ever known, I think that no ordinary citizen has any real access to the facts on which he might base sound judgment on the national and social issues of our times".

Hough closes her story by asking: "[W]here we would be if Charles Richter's brain had been wired according to standard blueprints". The answer could be to on