“I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.”

“Bowden Cable is the sort of honest and dependable operative that is the backbone of SpecOps. They never win commendations or medalsand the public has no knowledge of them at all. They are all worth...”

“Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.”

“There are two schools of thought about the resilience of time. The first is that time is highly volatile, with every small event altering the possible outcome of the earth's future. The other view ...”

“Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.”

“Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.”

“There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with airships anyway? They have borne mankind aloft for over a hundre...”

“We are in the process of finding out what filling the sky with hundreds of thousands of satellites does to all life on Earth.”

“A flat tire is like a bad attitude, you won't go anywhere until you change it.”

“Every idea is in the soul of its owner. No other power can shift it to another soul, that is why we have the telephone, aircraft, etc, each having its unique inventor.”