Quotes by David Brin, Startide Rising

“The propensity of Earthlings to get into trouble, and to learn thereby, was the reason my owners agreed to this mad venture although no one expected such a chain of unusual calamities as befell th...”

“Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverableand as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach.”