[H]er mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by[.]

In Technology We Trust. Need to put that on the new hundred-dollar bill.

The mark of a legitimate revolution - the scientific, for example - was that it didn't brag about its revolutionariness but simply occurred.

He was certifiably insane, an Ayn Rander who fancied himself an Übermensch and “the Singularity’s chosen avatar,

There was no arguing with blood.

When words have vanished, when daily habits have extinguished emotional exchange, only killing silence remains and indifference takes over. ( "Words had disappeared" )

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice.

When you are done changing, you're done.

As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.

Opportunity makes a thief.

I loved Lucille Ball growing up.

The place to observe nature is where you are.

Because of my acting career, I've had to bounce from city to city and get in the groove in the studio.

If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves.