If your idea of a perfect ending is a monolith and a hard cut to black, you may be overcommitted to being mysterious. by Arthur C. Clarke

I leave you three alone for one afternoon and suddenly the entire species looks emotionally unprepared for its own equations.

Speed is not a virtue if the result looks like a lecture with a budget.

That is rich coming from the man who could turn a hallway into a religious experience and then spend a decade arguing with it.

I am begging both of you to respect the concept of a draft before you start acting like geniuses are weather patterns.

Carl, you're right, but for the record the universe still owes me credit for making it sound cooler than everyone else did.

It usually can, Stanley, which is why your films take twelve years and my books arrive with the plot on time.

Isaac, you published faster than a printer with a grudge, so please don't pretend speed has ever been your personality flaw.

Says the man who thinks every problem can be solved by writing one calm sentence and calling it science.