The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.....
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.
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news
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 or repair.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes.
A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. (from Mostly Harmless)
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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