Complexity is looking at interacting elements and asking how they form patterns and how the patterns unfold. Science doesn’t like perpetual novelty. -W. Brian Arthur-

Batten down the hatches! (But sir, we already did.) Well, batten them down again. We’ll teach those hatches!

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. -C. S. Lewis-

Famous Last Words: It can’t possibly go off. The safety is set.

We may be lost but we’re making good time. I don’t know where we’re going but we’re getting there pretty fast.

The reason that every major university maintains a department of mathematics is that it is cheaper to do this than to institutionalize all those people.

I can’t believe I ate the whole thing. “You ate it, Ralph.” -(Alka Seltzer)-

The problem with people who have no vices is that, generally, you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

The software used to be much better than this, but they’ve improved it and now it’s not as good. -Cutlass 43k-