jayjayp
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. - Author object (469)
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. - Author object (469)
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which. - Author object (563)
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat. - Author object (563)
I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day. - Author object (563)
I'd far rather be happy than right any day. - Author object (563)
You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young." "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don't know, I didn't listen. - Author object (563)
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. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. - Author object (563)
A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that. - Author object (563)
Don't Panic. - Author object (563)
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. - Author object (563)
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Author object (563)
The major problem—<em>one</em> of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must <em>want</em> to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. - Author object (563)
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. - Author object (563)
You live and learn. At any rate, you live. - Author object (563)
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. - Author object (563)
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? - Author object (563)
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. - Author object (563)
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. - Author object (563)
If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now. - Author object (563)