Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is
3. A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
I’d take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.
I’d far rather be happy than right any day.
In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream, and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
The dew has fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning.
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
I’d take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Mostly it is loss which teaches us the worth of things.
Everything that happens before Death is what counts.
A learning experience is one of those things that say, ‘You know that thing you just did? Don’t do that.’
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
I’d far rather be happy than right any day.
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
In those days, spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream, and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.
Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.
A learning experience is one of those things that say, ‘You know that thing you just did? Don’t do that.’
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.
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