A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.

The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first!

Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows.

Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes; a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own.