"We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world."

"He is one of those peple who would be enormously improved by death"

"The only completely consistent people are the dead."

"Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged."

"It is fatal to be right when the rest of the world is wrong."

"A thing can be true and still be desperate folly."

"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder."

"Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science."

"A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth."

"The basic notion underlying USENET is the flame."

"The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later."

"Everything has got a moral if you can only find it."

"Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth."

"Fine art and pizza delivery, what we do falls neatly in between!"

"I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior."

"I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop."

"The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards"

"I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it."