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• The greatest pleasure--doing what they said couldn't be done.
• The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
  -- Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)...
• One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
  -- John Kenneth Galbraith, in "Time", 1961...
• Riker: "A Dyson sphere?" Picard: "A very old theory, Number One, I'm not surprised that you haven't heard of it.
  In the twentieth century, a physicist called Freeman Dyson postulated the theory that an enormous hollow sphere could be constructed around a star....
• How many science fiction writers -- does it take to change a light bulb?
  Two. One to screw in the light bulb, and one to say, "In 1876, Jules Verne had the first intimations that electrostatic power was a viable energy alternative....
• Justice is having and doing what is one's own. -- Plato
• In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing. -- Alan Kay
• Life is merely an orderly decay of energy states, and survival requires the continual discovery of new energy to pump into the system.
  He who controls the sources of energy controls the means of survival....