Science Fictionisms, 6...

"Marta's First Law of the Universe:
Crap accumulates in geometric proportion to crap cleared away.

Marta's Second Law of the Universe:
The more things an item is designed to do, the less likely it is to do any of them very well."
Marta Randall

"The only winner of the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky."
David Gerrold

"Listening is not the same as talking."

Isaac Asimov

"Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, etcetera, ad nauseum, keep her from drowning them at birth."
Robert A. Heinlein

"Life isn't easy. But then, if it was, everybody would be doing it."
Harlan Ellison

"There are two corollaries to Murphy's Law ('If anything can go wrong, it will.'

1. It already has, they just haven't told you.
2. They lie a lot."
   Elizabeth A. Lynn