If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)

Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts- because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting... I had been told that a 'funny' thing is a thing of goodness. It isn't... The goodness is in the laughing. I grok it is a bravery- and a sharing- against pain and sorrow and defeat.

When the need arises - and it does - you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't farm it out — that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it worse.