“Our chair will remain empty one day, but our ideas will continue to sit on that chair! However in the very distant future, there will remain neither chair nor ideas! All will disappear!”
“It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.”
“You sit in your chair and ignore it, Moldenke. You remain. Evolution continues, Moldenke remains. You remind me of pi, Moldenke -- ever constant. Do something! Sitting there, gassing the paper weeks away, caring not.”
“This leather chair belongs to me. I would let you sit in it, but you can’t sit in an idea.”
“Im sitting in a chair but in the future its a throne.”
“We are arguing like a man who should say, if there were an invisible cat in that empty chair, the chair would look empty; but the chair does look empty; therefore there is an invisible cat in it.”