It was always scary, Charlie replied, but that was why you did it, right? If it was safe... it wouldn’t be fun.

A universal truth of bicycling is this - pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

And though history sadly doesn't credit the man who first thought of tilting a bicycle's steering axis, it is more likely to be because of feet striking the wheel than an understanding of stability.

How many truths pass wrecking through the Illusion of Life, but none of them is an absolute truth therefore the real truth!

It's a strange sensation to pick up a book you read and enjoyed just a few months ago and discover you don't remember it.

My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good science.

They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.

I think it is incredibly important to be open and accessible and treat people fairly and look them in the eye and tell them what is on your mind.

American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

I want enough time to be in love with everything . . .

I'll live for me and for other real people. Until some god gives me five minutes of their time...they deserve none of mine.

(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds.

I am a thorn in the side of designers.