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

ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.

An armed society is a polite society.

Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.

It is better to copulate than never.

When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why.

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.