A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones.

They live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief

Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to do.

The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don't even know you are making.

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

It is most gratifying," it said, "that your enthusiasm for our planet continues unabated, and so we would like to assure you that the guided missiles currently converging with your ship are part of a special service we extend to all of our most enthusiastic clients, and the fully armed nuclear warheads are of course merely a courtesy detail. We look forward to your custom in future lives ... thank you.

I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.