Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it

Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.

Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually .

Love without sacrifice is like theft