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• Progress is made by lazy men looking for an easier way to do things.
  -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• Learn what not to do from the experience of others. It's cheaper than your own. -- J. Winter Smith
• Yield to Temptation ... it may not pass your way again.
  -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• Belief gets in the way of learning. -- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
• When the need arises -- and it does -- you must be able to shoot your own dog.
  Don't farm it out -- that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it worse....
• Rights" is a fictional abstraction. No one has "Rights", neither machines nor flesh-and-blood.
  Persons... have opportunities, not rights, which they use or do not use....
• A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes.
  This may be the purpose of the universe. -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A....
• Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why.
  Then do it. -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind
  it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate - and quickly....