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- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
- To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
- 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…
- God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.
- The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that it was a…
- If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.
- There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that…
- WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it.
- Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then…
- Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet.
- 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?"…
- So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die." "Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber…
- All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one…
- Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.
- Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to…
- There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.
- Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear to be stupid…
- The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.
- Goosnargh," said Ford Prefect, which was a special Betelgeusian word he used when he knew he should say something but didn't know what it should…
- Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery farm in England,…
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- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- People always follow the crowd. Be brave, Dare to do something different. Let the crowd follow you. Instead you follow them. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino