"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."

"I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously."

"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."

"There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...,0); the other was the fact that the century would end."

"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."

"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws."

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."

"You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain."

"Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat."

"Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you."

"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."

"Happiness is a warm puppy."