The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision. - Randall Munroe

A C++ programmer will tell you that Java is rubbish. A Java programmer will tell you that C++ is rubbish. Therefore I conclude that they are indeed the same thing.

Some people live more in twenty years than others do in eighty. It's not the time that matters, it's the person. - The Doctor

This is the way it is with the Zone: if you come back with swag - it's a miracle; if you come back alive - it's a success; if the patrol bullets miss you - it's a stroke of luck. And as for anything else - that's fate. - Roadside Picnic

Lesser, greater, middling, it’s all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I’m not a pious hermit, I haven’t done only good in my life. But if I’m to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all. – Geralt of Rivia, The Witcher Series

-No plan survives contact with reality for any length of time. -unknown
-No plan survives contact with the enemy... -Helmuth von Moltke