"Oh, is that reference expired? Huh. I figured that one would stick around." It made it two hundred years, but maybe seven hundred was a bit of a stretch.

"Kind of. How about that saying, 'don't ask why, ask why not'? Have you heard that one? Yinsen's the kind of guy who would say that. And then you'd give him a whole bunch of really good reasons why not, and he'd do it anyway. He's basically a mad scientist. And that's coming from me."