If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn’t sufficiently occupied. - Jack McDevitt

Few of the virtues are really useful. Fidelity leads to lost opportunity, truth-telling to injured feelings, charity to additional solicitations. The least productive, and possibly the most overrated, is faith. The faithful deny reason, close their minds to the evidence of their senses, and remain unfailingly optimistic in the face of disaster. They inevitably get just what they deserve.

If you want data to survive, carve it in rock.

The problem is that too often the only people who can act don’t want change. Power doesn’t so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.