Don't assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals.

I'm prepared to concede that stupidity does not help survival. One must after all understand not to poke a tiger with a stick. But intelligence leads to curiosity, and curiosity has never been a quality that helps one pour his or her genes into the pool. The truth must lie somewhere between. Whatever the reason, it is clearly mediocrity, at best, that lives and breeds.

Katie commented that Americans had lost the ability to enjoy themselves. "We watch television," Dave said.

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

The queen of virtues is the recognition of one's own flaws.

Life is a walk in the fog. Most people don't know that. They're fooled by the sunlight into thinking they can see what's ahead. But it's the reason they are forever getting lost or falling into ditches or committing matrimony.

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