V.

“Other golfers may outplay me from time to time, but they’ll never outwork me.”
― Tiger Woods, How I Play Golf

“My colleagues and I, Dr. Floyd, will stake our reputations on this. TMA-1 has nothing to do with the Chinese. Indeed, it has nothing to do with the human race—for when it was buried, there were no humans. “You see, it is approximately three million years old. What you are now looking at is the first evidence of intelligent life beyond the Earth.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“That took less hubris than thinking this was a message from on high.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance

“Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time, roughly a hundred billion human beings have walked the planet Earth. Now this is an interesting number, for by a curious coincidence there are approximately a hundred billion stars in our local universe, the Milky Way. So for every man who has ever lived, in this Universe there shines a star.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey