Weather
“If you don’t like Monterey Peninsula weather, move five feet.” Early 1980s
Personal
“There’s no one else on Earth that I would rather be.”-1979
“Flattery is a pretty poison. Nice to get as a gift, just don’t swallow it.” 2015, Feb
“George is my favorite Brother” – (yes, he’s my only brother) “I wouldn’t trade him for anybody.” (Though if Olivia Munn was asking, that could get awkward.)
“Eccentric means perfectly round, just off-center. Considering the alarmingly mental & emotional center of America, it’s a laudable, even imperative goal, and not even mildly difficult to have better ideas.” 1985
Love vs Lust
“There’s no such thing as a German Kiss.” July 2016
“We do not fall in love, we fall in lust. We can only grow into love.” – 1976, Award winning poem displayed 6 foot tall with Lasers in London’s Trafalgar Square.
“Love is proportional to the amount of time we spend with someone.” – 1976
“When you take your pants off – think of me.” 2012 (Flirting with a girlfriend)
Computers and Documentation
“There’s No Such thing as Computer Illiteracy, there is only Badly Written Software.” – 1986 Software Manual for my PC Magazine Award-winning “Instant-Office” Contact Management program (App)
Environmental Protection
“Never met a forest I didn’t like.” – 1995 (before I visited Australia with no native Conifers)
“Sanctuary Much” – ~1986 (to Leon Panetta at his MPC Town Hall – audience laughed & some quoted it back to me years later)
“May the Forest be with you.” ~1989 Possibly the first, I proposed it a Bumper Sticker to Save Americas’ Forests
“When your heart knows some natural phenomena must be protected, there is at least one law which already protects it.” ~1992 (1hope.org website)
“Clint Eastwood’s Chainsaw Massacre” – 2000
“Slow-Motion Ecological Train Wreck” re: Pebble Beach Company proposed Forest Destruction
“American environmentalists are the world’s worst negotiators.” – 1995
“You can’t force feed an ecosystem.” 2002 Comments on Fort Ord-RIFS”
“Jeffer’s Forest” – Naming an extraordinarily ecologically and economically valuable native biologically & genetically diverse forest ecosystem, 1994?
“Replant and Thin No More.” ~1998
“Slow-Motion Explosion“ – 1994 to PG Council (Dena & Lena Ibrahim loved it)
Fun
“A storm is a terrible thing to waste.” – ~1980 windsurfing
“So much fun it oughta be illegal.” 1979 windsurfing
Amusing, Puns
“Champagne sounds like “Sham-Pain” – a hypochondriac’s beverage. 1990s
Politics
“I’ve earned my enemies honestly.” – 2004
“Democracy is war without guns” (later added) “… where guns aren’t fired.” – 1992
“Doing Nothing is Always Superior to doing something Wrong.“ -2011 Blog article
“Authority will always employ the best solution, but only after exhausting every other self-serving possibility.” – July 2014
“If you ‘win’ by abandoning your most cherished values – why do you call it winning?” 2007 (Jon Stewart said this possibly better, a couple years later in 2009 “If you abandon your values under pressure – they aren’t values – they’re hobbies”
“Civil Bribery” – 2008
Animal Bodies
“A human being is a low-grade flame burning at about 98 degrees Fahrenheit. (for about 800,000 hours)” – 1975 ?
Confidence
“Persistence is the Most Powerful Tool known to Womankind.” 1980s, quoted back to me many times, sometimes decades later.
“False Humility is the greatest conceit.” 1977 (1970?)
Organizing, Personal
“Never lay paper flat. Always stand it on end – or you will never see it again.” – 1984
“You always have more than you think.” – 2013-2014 Canadian Sojourn
Kind, Flirty & Diplomacy
“You look good in a smile.”
Fixing Anything
“Take it apart, clean it and put it back together.” – ~1968, learned this through maintaining and creating winning Racing Slot-Cars
Art & Inspiration
“Good art is what jumps off the work and stays in your mind. Great art does that and more; it ignites you to create” -2009
“Art is simply the use of skill to make something for aesthetic effect.” 2012, InspiringLandscapes.com website
Physics
“Reality is what remains after you stop looking at it through math-colored glasses.” 2008 Cosmology paper “Ground Rules for Cosmological Physics”
“Mathematics does not and cannot create physical reality“- 2008 Cosmology paper “Ground Rules for Cosmological Physics”
“Mathematics proofs, like the Pythagorean Theorem, have finality. Physical Science “Proofs” are never Final. They are always subject to new evidence or reasoning.” – Cosmology Glossary 2008
“Accuracy does not equal meaning.” – 2008 Cosmology paper “Ground Rules for Cosmological Physics”
“An (physics) explanation is inadequate when there are more equations than graphs.” – 2008 Cosmology paper
“Mystification and Mathematics are a Theorist’s defense against being found out.” July 2014
“Cosmologists are often Wrong, but Never in Doubt” – “Crisis in Cosmology” Talk, Port Angeles, WA 2008
“We need to foster a Cosmology culture that is Comfortable with Un-Certainty.” –Keynote Lecture for Bhaktivedanta Institute Golden Jubilee, 2026
“Space-Time is actually Gravity-Time because it involves and requires a force, but space exhibits no known forces” Feb 2014, Cosmology Glossary
Cosmology
“If [Big Bang] ‘space’ is either matter or force, it has not been observed. If [Big Bang] ‘space’ is neither matter or force it cannot be observed.” – 2008 Ibid
“BackGround” Microwave Radiation
“Cosmic Microwave Background is a mirage, an illusion, a ghost.” – July 6, 2014″
All the following “Microwave Background” quotes are from my Keynote Lecture for Bhaktivedanta Institute Golden Jubilee, March 2026
“Its ALL Foreground” (referring to Cosmic Microwave Radiation, how “Background” microwaves are an Illusion)
“Microwave Background IS an Illusion”
“Its ALL ForeGround Microwaves!”
“Our best whole sky microwave data is 58,000 times Worse Resolution than Hubble images”
“The search for ‘Dark Matter’ is over. Its been found thanks to the Dokkum and Conroy team.
Microwave Foreground is physically verifiable. We can take “Photographs” of Foreground Microwave Radiation. But Microwave “Background” is a Calculation, Not a picture. We cannot take photographs of CMBR. We only arrive at it by subtraction.
“Every Planck Pixel includes Microwaves of ~50,000 Galaxies.”
“EVERY Cosmic Microwave ‘background’ Pixel / Data point includes Microwave Radiation from tens of thousands to millions of Foreground galaxies ! That directly contradicts Microwave ‘Background’s’ definition of not coming from known matter sources !”
“Gravity Makes Disks & Spheres — like Stars and most Galaxies.
But Only ElectroMagnetism & Plasma make Filaments and Sheets – like our Universe’s largest structures.”
“Above a galaxy scale, only ElectroMagnetism & Plasma make Filament, Sheet and Void shapes.”
“Trusting Big Bang is like using a Paris street map to guide you climbing Mt Everest”
“Big Bang is a Hilarious Spoof. Post-posterous – Way beyond the aftermath of anything pre-posterous.”
“Dark Matter has been found! Its Red Dwarves — . . . Oops, sorry 🙂 I meant Red Dwarf Stars.”
Regarding Universe demise “There is no End”
“For Forty Thousand Fortnights, Ptolemy ruled the skies, with his Earth centered-universe, until its overdue demise.”
“Gravitational Expansion, a self-conflicting view, another Earth-centered blunder, misled by a sexy clue.”
Expertise
“If people knew how hard I worked to make this look easy, they wouldn’t be so impressed.” — Echoing Dolly Parton’s wonderful “You wouldn’t believe how much it costs to look this cheap”
“Show the path and you impart hope.” 2014
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