Concentrating to within an inch of your life on the pre-flight safety briefing, to compensate for those ignoring it. – Rob Temple, @SoVeryBritish (Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourse
A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer. – Thomas Carlyle, letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843 November 17th
We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there. – Wilson Greatbatch