This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.
Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was. “Is there any tea on this spaceship?” he asked.
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.
If there’s anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place.
When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch.
Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
One is never alone with a rubber duck.
I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: “Macintosh – We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end”.
If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.
One always overcompensates for disabilities. I’m thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.
He learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries.
Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there’s no point trying to look in that direction because it won’t be coming from there.