Wasp Quotes

One cannot analogize the non-existent.

Time—the older you get the faster it goes.

Well, that is a valuable addition to the sum total of our knowledge. Our minds are now enriched by the thought that an anonymous individual may be presented with a futile object for an indefinable purpose when he reaches his unknown destination.

Any chance of accidentally dropping our cargo of bureaucrats overboard on the way back? A misfortune like that might benefit the spaceways, if not humanity.

Listen to me. You were born in Masham, capital city of Diracta – the Sirian home planet. Your father was a trader there at the time. You lived on Diracta until the age of seventeen, when you returned with your parents to Terra.

What's the matter with you? Got a bellyache or something?
"No, sir. I've been thinking."
"Does it hurt that much?"

Inside their military minds conditioning masqueraded as logic.

Appearances aren’t always what they seem.

He thinks he’s heap big. To me he’s just a big heap.

No matter how irrational it may be, people often tend to dislike what they’re unable to understand.

Reasonableness is strength. Irrationality is weakness.

As for the causes, he listened to them with boredom. Only the strong know there is but one cause of war. All the other multitudinous reasons recorded in the history books were not real reasons at all. They were nothing but plausible pretexts. There was but one root-cause that persisted right back to the dim days of the jungle. When two monkeys want the same banana, that is war.

It pays to stop and think whenever you’ve got time to stop and think.

Superior life does not establish itself by benefit of brains alone; manual dexterity is equally essential.

Fander tried to explain the alien in non-alien terms. It proved impossible.