Avery Yeager

“...I think apparatus burned out all over the ward trying to adjust to her come busting in like she did-took electronic readings on her and calculated they weren't built to handle something like this on the ward, and just burned out, like machines committing suicide.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“What is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish useful ideas from the worthless ones.”
― Carl Sagan

“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Too late. It's hatched.”
― Christopher Paolini