How do you say 'We come in peace' when the very words are an act of war?

Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and limited resources.

Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black.

Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder.

There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.

People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.

Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail.