Life is hard, and then you die.

Suppose we blasted all politicians into space. Would the SETI project find even one of them?

Life is too long to be good at C++ – if you had spent all that time to become good at it, you would essentially have to work with it, too, to get back the costs, and that would just be some long, drawn-out torture.

Life is hard, and then you die.

The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life.

The aspects you are willing to ignore are more important than the aspects you are willing to accept.

Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.