Euphemisms are for the differently brained.

...I know good design when I fail to trip over it.

It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

It's always coldest before the warm.

The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars.

And I repeat: if there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone Age, it is the widespread dissemination of the thoughts and perceptions that Robert Heinlein has been selling as entertainment since 1939.