Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.

Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library.

Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.

To all my gentle readers who have treated me with love for over 30 years, I must say farewell. It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys, but that's not the way it worked out. I have had a long and happy life and I have no complaints about the ending, thereof, and so farewell - farewell.