To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
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.
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?
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
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.
It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
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.
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
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