Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain

It's nice to think that picking uncertain paths may not necessarily alter their destination too drastically, simply the journey undertaken to reach it.

Unfortunately, there's a lot of people in high places who understand the science but don't like where the policy leads them: too much government control.

Money and power come as a byproduct of things well done.

Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.

the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.

Unlike the phone system, the Internet has no Ma Bell or FCC to mandate new policies for the entire system. Not even Microsoft can make us all upgrade our routers. I think.

Believers are increasingly aware that, unless the Good News is made known also in the digital world, it may be absent in the experience of many people for whom this existential space is important.

I'm in a band, and we play music. And that's sort of my way of still being a rock star.

In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone.