All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse. – Benjamin Franklin
Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours. – John F. Kennedy