“Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.”

“Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.”

“Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.”

“[The Universe] does not care, and even with all our science there are some disasters that we can not avert. All evil and good is petty before nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that can not be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.”

“So much technology, so little talent.”

“Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back of his father's castle.”

“Though his invention worked superbly [...] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end.”