Earth: considered mostly harmless. -Ford Prefect, “The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”-

Don’t Panic -“The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”-

Politics makes for bad science.

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. -Lewis Thomas-

I’m not difficult to get along with, just impossible. -Jim Cupp-

Moderation is highly overrated. -Horner’s Butcher Block, Marion, Indiana-

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. -John F. Kennedy-

Never underrate gratitude. Thankfulness changes you. -Cindy Cupp-

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known. -Michel de Montaigne-

Son, in fifty seven years of life and fourteen months of being dead, there’s one thing I’ve learned about women: and that’s that I don’t know a damned thing about women. -Sargeant Benton Fraser, Sr. RCMP, “Due South”-