If you don’t sign up your kids for cryonics then you are a lousy parent.

Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck.

I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how do you think you know it?

If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.

I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.

If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo - but zebras were a rare legendary creature that had finally been decided to be mythical - then there's a certain sort of person who would ignore dragons, who would never bother to look at dragons, and chase after rumors of zebras. The grass is always greener on the other side of reality. Which is rather setting ourselves up for eternal disappointment, eh? If we cannot take joy in the merely real, our lives shall be empty indeed.

Boys," said Hermione Granger, "should not be allowed to love girls without asking them first! This is true in a number of ways and especially when it comes to gluing people to the ceiling!