This may seem like insanity, and so it is. It offsets the real problems of modern life. How can an apparently insane species manage to organize itsel… - Fred Hoyle

The policy was to keep everything in watertight compartments. In the interests of security, they said, but more likely in the interests of inefficiency.

I'm still waiting to hear how I should have compromised. Are you sure that 'compromise' and 'capitulate' are not synonymous in your vocabulary?

Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to think that the favorable properties of physics on which life depends are in every respect deliberate … . It is therefore almost inevitable that our own measure of intelligence must reflect … higher intelligences … even to the limit of God … such a theory is so obvious that one wonders why it is not widely accepted as being self-evident. The reasons are psychological rather than scientific.