"Very well," I said, "let us roll the pebble and get the avalanche on its way." - Matt Hughes

"You ask if anyone has 'tested the concept.' But why would anyone test reality? Reality is not for testing, but for living with."

Gathering himself together, he asked the dwarf, “Was all this in some way planned and predetermined?”
Gaskarth turned upon the young man a thoughtful gaze. “There are those who say that all is planned, to the placement of the last mote and mite. There are others who say that nothing is purposed, and that the galaxies themselves swing where they will. And then there are some, like me, who prefer to walk on, saying as little as possible.”

"Isn't it obvious?" he answered.
"No. It is so far from obvious that it has gone right through obscure, breezed past unfathomable and is now completely beyond the reach of my vocabulary."