[akerl_]

The danger of using quotation marks around things that aren't quotes is that you can wildly misstate what somebody said and readers are left to ponder if you just don't understand or if you're willfully trying to misrepresent them.

The reason a bet on this would need a date other than "ever" is because if one side of the bet can't be resolved until infinite time has passed, it just doesn't make any sense.