Nice thread, well-revived.

I liked Lazarus Long, but Heinlein got so sexist I couldn't stand to read his stuff any more.

I mean, make sure she has her own desk? Shouldn't that be HER decision?

I like the Nietzsche one, quoted elsewhere probably more correctly, something like Then up spake one old greybeard of a god, and quoth he, I am the Lord they God, you shall have no other gods before Me... and all the other gods died laughing.

I also think he was the one who said, after Voltaire said that if god hadn't existed it would have been necessary to invent him, that the same could not be said of Voltaire. That is, if he hadn't existed, there would have been no need to invent him.

Ingersoll said something about Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles flourishes.

I thought Data's brother was Lore, as in, data and lore.