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 | "It"s no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase "As
pretty as an airport" appear." | |
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Found in the topic Airplanes.
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| "I don?t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won?t believe
it." | |
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Found in the topic Belief.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Contradict.
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| "Life ... is like a grapefruit. It"s orange and squishy, and has a
few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks
don?t." | |
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Found in the topic Ship.
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| "First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to
turn numbers into letters with ASCII ? and we thought it was a typewriter.
Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the
World Wide Web, we"ve realized it"s a brochure." | |
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Found in the topic Computer.
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| "A common mistake people make when trying to design something
completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete
fools." | |
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Found in the topic Fool.
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| "Isn?t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to
believe there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" | |
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Found in the topic Garden.
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| "This planet has ? or rather had ? a problem, which was this: most of
the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many
solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely
concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd
because on the whole it was not the small pieces of paper that were
unhappy." | |
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Found in the topic Problem.
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| "Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there is a huge
difference between disliking somebody ? maybe even disliking them a lot ?
and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the
fields and setting their house on fire." | |
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Found in the topic Hate.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Ability.
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| "You live and learn. At any rate, you live." | |
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Found in the topic Learn.
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| "There is a theory that states: "If anyone finds out what the
universe is for it will disappear and be replaced by something more
bizarrely inexplicable." There is another theory that states: "This has
already happened...."" | |
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Found in the topic Universe.
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| "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on
no account be allowed to do the job." | |
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Found in the topic Capable.
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| "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended
up where I intended to be." | |
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Found in the topic Faith.
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| "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly
by." | |
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Found in the topic Procrastination.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Wrong.
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| "Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word "safe" that I
wasn"t previously aware of." | |
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Found in the topic Safety.
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| "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light except for bad news,
which obeys its own special laws." | |
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Found in the topic Light.
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