The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders.

If you want data to survive, carve it in rock.

Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines.

Most of us sleepwalk through our lives. We take all its glories, its wine, food, love, and friendship, its sunsets and its stars, its poetry and fireplaces and laughter, for granted. We forget that experience is not, or should not be, a casual encounter, but rather an embrace. Consequently, for too many of us, when we come to the end, we wonder where the years have gone. And we suspect we have not lived.

The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.

So we have progressed to the point where we can move politicians around faster than light. I'm not sure I see the advantage.

... the truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.