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We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.

If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer

I don't say that I don't believe in God because that implies that there is a God for me not to believe in.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.

We are stuck with technology when what we want is just stuff that works.

If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.

The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they lead.

The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don't even know you are making.

It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has happened.

Democracy is all about not electing the wrong man-eating lizard.

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.