What people do with their leisure tells us a great deal about the nature of a society, what its values really are, for example, as opposed to what it… - Jack McDevitt

He was a decent enough guy, but he was always at his worst when he was trying to be sincere.

One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note?

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.