You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.
If we were still English we'd be drinking more and driving on the wrong side of the road - pretty much what people do on the Fourth of July anyway.
We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers.
A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to establish that its workers are not just sitting around downloading Internet porn.
I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.
Do not try the patience of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet.
In view of the kind of matter we work with, it will never be possible to avoid little laboratory explosions.
There is nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand-new ones. But that's OK because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems.
I've developed a new philosophy - I only dread one day at a time.
Science is wonderful: for years uranium cost only a few dollars a ton until scientists discovered you could kill people with it.
- 20,000 quips & quotes by Evan Esar.
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
There's no point being grown-up if you can't be childish sometimes.
