“But for life's little defeats and indignities, I would be happy, content and completely average.”

“I don't play to lose, only to win or learn. Mostly learn.”

“I'm the biggest nerd you'd want to meet. There are bigger, but you don't want to meet them.”

“You may find that knowledge is not so great a thing as belief or hope.”

“The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.”

“Perhaps they never left the island when construction was complete," Otto replied.Wing raised an eyebrow. "A true job for life.""Or a life for a job," Otto countered. He wouldn't be at all surprised, given the emphasis on total secrecy, if H.I.V.E. offered an "aggressive" retirement package for lower-level employees. Here, being fired was probably a term that was taken a little too literally.”

“The average man don't like trouble and danger.”