Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt or a sense of humor.

A good bathe when you really need it can get you over almost anything.

Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return.

I despise women who rely on men entirely for their own existence.

Have any sheep been seen walking out of the Library with seagoing adventurers clinging to their wool?

What you think about is what you get. The more you think about something, the more it manifests in your life.

Outnumbered! Ya’ll are always the hell outnumbered!” - Marek, Gunship

You can't solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.

Look at what you've done, you're losing me is what you've won. Got me planning to go solo

In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.

Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.

The greatest weapon of mass destruction is corporate economic globalization.

Irreducible complexity is a problem for Darwinian evolution. Whenever we see these complex functional systems we realise that they have to be designed.

Sow seed--but let no tyrant reap; Find wealth--let no imposter heap; Weave robes--let not the idle wear; Forge arms--in your defence to bear.

Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance.