Thorin Khuzdul Quotes & Sayings

The apparent incompatibility between the abundance of habitable planets in our Galaxy and the lack of extraterrestrial visitors, known as the Fermi paradox, suggest the existence of what Hanson calls a "Great Filter," an evolutionary/technological roadblock somewhere along the developmental path from nonliving matter to space-colonizing life. If we discover independently evolved primitive life in our Solar System, this would suggest that primitive life is not rare, and that the roadblock lies after our current human stage of development-perhaps because assumption 1 is false, or because almost all advanced civilizations self-destruct before they are able to colonize. I'm therefore crossing my fingers that all searches for life on Mars and elsewhere find nothing: this is consistent with the scenario where primitive life is rare but we humans got lucky, so that we have the roadblock behind us and have extraordinary future potential. — Max Tegmark

You don't get suprised by what we have already, but what we are going to have... this going to suprise you. — Deyth Banger

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. — Aesop

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past. — Tim O'Reilly

As the cause is, so the effect will be Cause is never different from effect, the effect is but the cause reproduced in another form. — Swami Vivekananda

She had never cared for social things, as society was just a complicated collection of individually annoying people, and she didn't like most people to begin with, — Larry Correia

My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind. — Tahir Shah

Granny hesitated. "Agnes who calls herself Perditax?"
"Perdita X," said Nanny. She at least respected anyone's right to recreate themselves. — Terry Pratchett