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"We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem."
"I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that's it. The lifestyle doesn't change."
"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."
"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen."
"I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it."
"The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate."
"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."
"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."
"One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It's just an awful lot of 'us.'"
"I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it."
"See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that."
"I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons."
"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat."
"Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't recognise. It's time for the machines to disa"
"He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot."
"The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks."
"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."