Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.

If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong.

The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.

You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally.

Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.

The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract somethings 'just happened' to be atoms that 'just happened' to get together in ways which 'just happened' to look like consistent laws and some configurations 'just happened' to possess self-awareness and that two 'just happened' to be the Man from Mars and a bald-headed old coot with Jubal inside.