Quotes from Douglas E. Richards

Democrats were seen as the party who really cared. Republicans the party of wealthy assholes.

Smith in frustration. "If all she wanted was muscle, she could

Einstein had famously said, "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

After the war, we should think about going into the shrimping business together.

because if she were no longer truly human, how could she judge his humanity?

the process of natural selection once ensured that the strongest, smartest, or fastest reproduced in the greatest numbers. But now, in the case of human society, with no natural predators to thin the herd, evolution didn't reward those with the most intelligence, but simply those who reproduced the most.

Additional manpower doesn't always speed things up," said Kelly. "Yes, perspiration is important. But it's also true that nine women can't have a baby in a month.

He had expected, at minimum, to be able to examine tread marks and a trail of crushed vegetation and small trees the trailer had surely sheared on its slide down the hill, like a butter knife of the gods.

Along with a chamber pot and tersorium, of course." "What's a tersorium?" Boyd thought at this AI. "A sponge on a stick," replied Sage helpfully. "Which Roman's used to wipe their anuses after defecation.

We need to be aspirational rather than merely defensive.

not too many people would feel sorry for a man who worked from home, answered only to himself, and earned millions by simply typing words into a computer.

The total kinetic energy an object picks up by being in motion is half of its mass times its velocity squared. So a tenfold increase in an object's velocity increases the energy it carries a hundredfold.

But while the West often failed to understand the motivations of these extremists, the extremists understood the motivations of the West only too well. They found the West soft. Gullible. Stupid. Its media easily manipulated.

Really crazy stuff. I think they call it abstract math. What he created was usually beyond me, even conceptually.

Good people are rarely suspicious: they cannot imagine others doing the things they themselves are incapable of doing. Then,

The most important thing to know is that I do love you.

Struggle, purpose, accomplishment, and challenge are what truly brings meaning to existence.

they could discuss moving her temporarily to a VIP guest house on base.

But just to remove all doubt, let me tell you how I found your base in the first place.

I assume you're familiar with quantum entanglement. Everything in the universe is connected in some way with every other thing. Drove Einstein crazy. And quantum physics suggests that the universe is shaped by consciousness rather than the other way around. Another point that can make even the most rational physicist spiritual. The state of the universe only comes into being when it's observed.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are." ?—Arthur Golden

swaths of humanity. That just below the surface of human kindness was a seething pool of unfathomable ruthlessness and cruelty, unequaled in the animal kingdom.

Some people melted under pressure and some reacted to its squeeze by turning into diamond, becoming battle hardened.

another problem is that many of us are addicted to news itself. And this is a drug that can eat away at rationality and happiness both. No matter how much the news alarms someone with this addiction, or depresses them, or makes them absolutely miserable with the unfairness of the world, or puts them in a state of perpetual rage, they can't help but seek out even more news. And this news stokes even more outrage, and exposes them to even more dire warnings of coming catastrophes.