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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.