Assigning blame is a fixation of an ineffective mind. - Matt Hughes

"You ask if anyone has 'tested the concept.' But why would anyone test reality? Reality is not for testing, but for living with."

"The likelihood seems farfetched."
"So have several of the situations in which we have found ourselves in the recent past," I said.
"But you are resolved to avoid those kinds of situations in the future."
I made a gesture ripe with fatalism. "I have come to understand that the universe accords my resolutions a good deal less consideration than I would prefer."

"I have a reputation for genius," I said, though I lowered my voice. "It can withstand some eccentricities."