You don’t have to outrun the bear. You only have to outrun the slowest person ahead of you.

I think it’s tragic that scientific advances have caused many people to imagine they know it all, and that God is irrelevant or nonexistent. The fact is that everything we learn reveals more things that we do not understand. -Donald Knuth-

I must be off to patrol the moat. -Sir Rodney-

Clarke’s Second Law of Prediction: The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Prayer: Don’t give God instructions — just report for duty!

Here’s my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose. -Ronald Reagan-

If I don’t get in touch with you in a year or two, please show me the same consideration.

Мы борг. Вы будете ассимилированы. Сопротивление бесполезно.

Between caffiene and oxygen, I can hold my breath for almost two minutes.

Here lies the body of James O’Day / He died maintaining the right-of-way. / He was right, dead right, all along / But he’s just as dead as if he’d been wrong.