Mike

“I need to ask myself, 'What would an Apollo astronaut do?' He'd drink three whiskey sours, drive his Corvette to the launchpad, then fly to the moon in a command module smaller than my Rover. Man those guys were cool.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“to be honorable implies not fearing the appearance and consequences of being outlandish.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“Ideas come and go, stories stay.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or anything that could be understood as anthropomorphic. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion