“Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.”

"Walking", p. 205
The Journey Home (1977)
Context: There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. I have a friend who's always in a hurry; he never gets anywhere. Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details. The utopian technologists foresee a future for us in which distance is annihilated and anyone can transport himself anywhere, instantly. Big deal, Buckminster. To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me. <!-- π

Quoted in Henry Fowles Pringle (1939), The Life and Times of William Howard Taft.
Attributed

Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 7 (p. 68) (motto of the Qeng Ho trading group).

Friendship in Absence; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

What I learned, loved and lost as a trans Zumba addict (2018)

Part 1, Chapter 3, Economic History, p. 43
Economics For Everyone (2008)

Source: Money And Class In America (1989), Chapter 9, Coined Souls, p. 227

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 5 (p. 74)