The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.
The mere thought hadn’t even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ’em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.
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 and repair.
How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.
Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.
The books people are writing today, they’re too long. You get a little bit of plot, and then pages and pages of Creative Writing. They teach classes in how to do this. They should teach classes in how to stop!
I don’t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won’t believe it.
I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.
We notice things that don’t work. We don’t notice things that do. We notice computers, we don’t notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don’t notice books.
It’s good to leave your room super-messy when you’re away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked.
What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo?
He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true.
High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse.
A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where to go next. On a mad impulse it went up to the beach again. It drifted back to sea.
And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they’d settled on.
Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.
A mobile phone needs a manual in the way that a teacup doesn’t.
Even light, which travels so fast it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey between the stars.
As a result of all this hardship, dirt, thirst, and wombats, you would expect Australians to be a dour lot. Instead, they are genial, jolly, cheerful, and always willing to share a kind word with a stranger, unless they are an American.