It was so darn quiet you could hear your hair grow. - Robert A. Heinlein

Natural selection—the dying out of the poorly equipped—goes on day in and day out, inexorable and automatic. It is as tireless, as inescapable, as entropy.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

McIlvaine continued, “Take the amoeba—a more basic, and much more successful life form than ours. The motivational psychology of the amoeba—”
I switched off my ears; free speech gives a man the right to talk about the “psychology” of an amoeba, but I don’t have to listen.