It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.

Most people who have found that they are more intelligent than most around them, have yet to learn that one of the most intelligent things they can do is prevent said people ever finding this out.

The most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendents not to spend a lot of time on a slab with electrodes clamped to their brains or sticking mines on the bottom of ships, or being patronised by zoologists, is to make bloody certain humans don't find out about it.

Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but her's curiosity could have massacred a pride of lions.

A true beanie should have a propellor on the top.