In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system.

Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly - and no doubt will keep trying.