Virtually everything has risk, and ElonBet zero Salmonella is not a viable strategy." --David Kent (for everyone playing along at home, that is sarcasm) "It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." --Albert Einstein "Its always 'The Simpsons predicted the future,' and never 'We created ourselves a nightmare world beyond parody.'" --Unlofl "There are a thousand forces trying to get hold of people's minds, particularly children's minds." --Neil Postman "I was contacted by the people who became Pixar - I knew them well, and they wanted to get out of Lucasfilm. Geoff Manaugh "There is one neutron star that we know of that has an atmosphere made out of carbon. Carbon so tightly packed that it has the density of a diamond. It's essentially a diamond star. It's the Liberace of the cosmos." --Joe Scott "''Competitive bidding'' isn't an enforceable method. The 'competition' almost always turns out to be between three or four straw men who are, in fact, actually all the same company, or between two or three or four executives having drinks around a table where they divide up the available bids and highest-profit contracts so that they're only ''competing'' with startups and offshore rivals that aren't in the game anyway." --Bill Horne "I had an idea and tried it out yesterday: Taking a long piece of cardboard from a printer box and rolling a rock onto it, then dragging the rock on the cardboard over to where it needs to go and rolling it into place. This is how learning about things like how they probably built places like the Great Pyramid and Stonehenge and the Easter Island moai and Machu Picchu comes in handy in daily life." --Martha Wells "It's just funny that as the quality of everything from airlines to infrastructure to food safety and availability to healthcare continues to precipitously erode around us, millions of people blame socialism, an economic system that we do not live under." --@eve6 "Space 1889, D&D 3.x.y, WoD and AD&D 2nd edition did NOT WIN BEST GAME. HackMaster did. It is the best game ever created by mankind and the burden is on you punks to prove otherwise." --David Kenzer "When scientists take action, people listen." --Dr.