Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it.

Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.

Idiots are not responsible for what they do. The real guilt falls on rational people who sit on their hands while morons run wild. You can opt out if you want to. Play it safe. But if you do, don't complain when the roof comes down.

See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered.

One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note?

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