The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe.

Everything reminds Milton of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper.

I remember once reading that it is still not understood how the giraffe manages to pump an adequate blood supply all the way up to its head; but it is hard to imagine that anyone would conclude tht giraffes do not have long necks. At least not anyone who had ever been to a zoo

Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.

The fact that there is no such thing as a perfect anti-sepsis does not mean that one might as well do brain surgery in a sewer.

Suppose someone sits down where you are sitting right now and announces to me that he is Napoleon Bonaparte. The last thing I want to do with him is to get involved in a technical discussion of cavalry tactics at the Battle of Austerlitz. If I do that, I'm getting tacitly drawn into the game that he is Napoleon Bonaparte.

The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe.