The commercial space industry owes a huge debt to Patti Grace Smith. There might not be a commercial spaceflight industry were it not for Patti's leadership.

Mentorship is simply learning from the mistakes and mastery of a successful person in his/her field.

Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.

Do I understand this right? I'm being marked down?

I love the way you love, but I hate the way I'm supposed to love you back.

When I'm in good form there are chances that rivals will worry more about you more than you about them.

It's important to adhere to the principles of a large group of people that truly believe these principles, and if they believe them, then that's good enough for me.

We must look to the heavens... for the measure of the earth.

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.

You're probably the most boring teenager in the world.

Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.