They knew the line was there. It could have caused a lot of people to get sick.

They knew the line was there. It could have caused a lot of people to get sick.

We are preparing for fire, flooding and pandemic disease right now. We hope that none of it happens, but we read more

We are preparing for fire, flooding and pandemic disease right now. We hope that none of it happens, but we are planning so when it does we are ready.

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is read more

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

Between those two we need gradual increases of complexity and achievements to keep the public interest, to keep the funding, read more

Between those two we need gradual increases of complexity and achievements to keep the public interest, to keep the funding, to keep the political support going. We've gone to the Moon, we've stopped doing that; now commercial people are doing it. Who knows? Maybe we will get technology from other sources; something I have written about in my days of writing science fiction.

On Iran, let's be clear. There has been absolutely no discussion in NATO of military action.

On Iran, let's be clear. There has been absolutely no discussion in NATO of military action.

I am very happy. I feel like I skied very well. It's unbelievable, I feel very strange. I never expected read more

I am very happy. I feel like I skied very well. It's unbelievable, I feel very strange. I never expected this.

We're coming into this town full force and we're going to take care of this problem like we did the read more

We're coming into this town full force and we're going to take care of this problem like we did the drug and the graffiti problem.

Gay is not one of those writers who vomits on a page, then goes back and rewrites. He never moves read more

Gay is not one of those writers who vomits on a page, then goes back and rewrites. He never moves on to a next sentence until he's perfectly happy with one he's written before. So he'll struggle with the opening paragraph of a chapter for weeks. This is laborious, not to mention painful.

The only thing I can figure out without going into the motor is that it looks like it broke a read more

The only thing I can figure out without going into the motor is that it looks like it broke a main stud (one of three inside the engine which holds the crankshaft in place), ... From there, somehow it wedged the rod in the cylinder which eventually led to it breaking. As soon as it started, you could tell something was wrong. It was the first time in all my years in racing that I've seen something like this happen to us.