Oh, we get along. She lets me have my own way, and later I find out I’ve done just what she wanted me to do. - Robert A. Heinlein

And all over the country the antagonists of human liberty, of human dignity—the racketeers, the crooked political figures, the shysters, the dealers in phony religions, the sweat-shoppers, the petty authoritarians, all of the key figures among the traffickers in human misery and human oppression, themselves somewhat adept in the arts of the mind and acutely aware of the danger of free knowledge—all of this unholy breed stirred uneasily and wondered what was taking place.

In a society in which it is a mortal offense to be different from your neighbors your only escape is never to let them find out.

Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive—and unpredictable.