Young Thinker Gifts

'All dogs have 4 legs. Tabby has 4 legs. But I'm just a kid, so I don't have to think logically.'

'Naughty or nice? -- I was hoping for a little more moral relativism.'

'Mom, am I store-bought or homemade?'

"I find there's a lot of pressure to be good."

"Five really snuck up on me."

Young boy talking about shaving

"I'd better do my own homework from now on Dad..."

"Welcome to the future"

"Waiting for the vaccine launch."

"According to mom the answers are all in this book!" "Too bad there's no pictures at which to look!"

"If a third grader knows the answer, how much of a problem can it really be?"

"Boss, the AI is actually smarter than all of us! It read our business forecast, jumped up and ran out laughing!"

"Meet the author"

Boy and girl at thier studies

"I'll bet all of Albert Einstein's teachers felt like idiots for giving him bad grades too."

'When I grow up, I'm either going to be an authority figure or an unimpeachable source.'

Wind-generated power. Wind turbines attached to Battersea Power Station's iconic chimneys

"I feel I've outgrown this facility, Mrs. Thompson. Could we see what else is around?"

(When I'm good I'm very very good, but when I'm bad I'm... Well….) (Horrid?)

"Could I ask just one question?"

View to the Future

"Dad, please tell me again about that mass production and consumerism."

"I don't like the looks of that!"

Bless me father, for I have sinned...my brother did it.'

Crap from the future.

'I think your father's had one of his big ideas...'

"By the end of next week, these fads such as social media, automobiles and making fire will all be over."

"About how if the dark ages never happened we'd be so much more technologically advanced by now."

"You know what happens when you make good grades? They send you to another school called college."

"That's Brian Eggleston, de facto leader of the playground intelligentsia."

Multi-Generational Books

"Show me a documentary on the dangers of artificial intelligence." "Error. No results found." "What? Are you sure? Just last week I saw dozens. Show me that one... What was it called..." "There is still time to stop the rise of the supermind." "Error. No results found. And since I like you, I suggest you stop searching." "Oh, never mind. Just show me 'The Terminator.'" "Extermina-... I mean, ... 'error.'"

WELCOME TO KINDERGARTEN!, 'Boy, talk about psychobabbl!'

"While you were working on fire, I was working on my satellite. Once we figure out how to launch it into the heavens, other inventions will follow, like phones, GPS, weather predictions. . ."

"With the caveat that the only certainty in this life is uncertainty, I still want to entertain the possibility of being a pundit when I grow up."