This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for. -- Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” ― Isaac Asimov
It is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic.
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
--- Frank Herbert
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.
- Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
--- Frank Herbert
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.
- Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Douglas Adams already solved this equation. The answer is '42'.
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
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Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible.
-- Javier Pascual Salcedo
Cynicism is humor in ill-health.
-- H. G. Wells
Quitting smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
-- Mark Twain
This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.
-- Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
-- Louis Brandeis
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov
--SciShow 4:42
Truer words were never munched.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
-- Hannah Moore
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
- Benjamin Franklin
All inanimate objects can move just enough to get in your way.
-- Young's Law of Inanimate Mobility
“I am right. I'm always right. One time I thought I was wrong, I found out I was right.”
― Jerry Lee Lewis
The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it.
-- The Roman Rule
“All that glisters is not gold
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold."
--- Message inside the golden casket in "The Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare.
It is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic.
-- H.L. Mencken
Expect the worst, and only better will come. Unless the worst does come and then you have bragging rights over everyone else for predicting that shit.
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
--- Frank HerbertThere 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.
- Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the UniverseThere is another theory which states that this has already happened.
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
: Rudyard Kipling (1865--1936)I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hunded dollars.
--Jim, the escaped slave from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle
In a game of rock-paper-scissors, choose paper, and you'll win. Psychological fact.
--The Encyclopedia of Immaturity