Learnin’ how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them.

You know how to pray, don’t you? Just put your hands together and hope.

As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick.

It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long.

Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive mind, which then invents DNA or the flute sonata form or a way of making light bulbs wear out in half the time. But most of them miss. Most people go through their lives without being hit by even one.

Every procedure for getting a cat to take a pill works fine - once. Like the Borg, they learn.

Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home.