Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason.
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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.
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Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.
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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)
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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news
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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.
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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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The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.....
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Funny how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse it suddenly does.
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Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.
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You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist
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When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
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