Quotes about humor

She warned me that raising children would require patience. It’s why I never had any of my own.

A leader must be utterly decisive, especially when giving orders that conflict with the ones from the day before.

“We knew that, though.”

“We suspected it.”

“Do we know it now?”

“We suspect it harder,” Elvi said. “We’re scientists. We only know things until someone shows us we’re wrong.”

“There’s sensor data already? I mean, I figured there’d be a few hours at least before they gathered enough to have a meeting about.”

“When people don’t know anything,” Amos said, “they love having meetings to talk about it.”

The universe was tricky, and its sense of humor came with teeth.

Put a dozen people in front of their cameras, and you’d wind up with thirteen opinions.

“Emily,” Drummer said, “do you know the one thing I am absolutely sure won’t fix any of our problems? Another committee.”

Our backup plan is everyone does this right the first time so we don’t need a backup plan. Understood?

“You look old, Fred.”

“I feel old. But it’s better than the alternative.”

“So you’re trying to get me prepared for one of my crew dying?”

“Historically speaking, humans are pretty much at a hundred percent on that.”

Alex’s experience of real family—of blood relations—was more like having a lot of people who had all wound up on the same mailing list without knowing quite why they signed up for it.

“Still. Maybe some good can come out of it.”

“I admire your psychotic optimism.”