Velvet put-downs: He has the attention span of a lightning bolt. -Robert Redford-

I don’t deal in facts, only delusions. When you work with facts everyone will try to point out where you are wrong. If you tell them up front you only work with delusions, then you can’t possibly be called wrong.

Elephants and donkeys never fought until politics came along.

Velvet put-downs: I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial. -Irvin S. Cobb-

Velvet put-downs: I feel so miserable without you. It’s almost like having you here. -Stephen Bishop-

No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. -Ronald Reagan-

Life is too short for bad coffee. And I’ve had my share.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand. -Albert Einstein-

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. -Arthur Conan Doyle-

Converse to Clarke’s Third Law (Niven’s Law): Any sufficiently rigorously defined magic is indistinguishable from technology.