I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer.
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.
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.
Don’t Panic.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
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.
I’d far rather be happy than right any day.
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.
Reality is frequently inaccurate.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.
All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.
We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.