He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind—but most everybody else agreed it made you daft. - Vernor Vinge

She was obviously an idealist: that is, someone who can twist his every vice into self-righteous morality.

The hard facts are extraordinary, without adding superstitious mumbo-jumbo.

The essence of real creativity is a certain playfulness, a flitting from idea to idea without getting bogged down by fixated demands. Of course, you don’t always get what you thought you were asking for. From this era on, I think invention will be the parent of necessity—and not the other way around.