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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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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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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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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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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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news
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There's always something fishy about the French.
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My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.
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Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears, Roses do blush and hang their heads,
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The odds of the planet Earth being in decent, liveable shape in the year 3000 are inversely related to the odds that humanity will survive that long.
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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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Your motivation? Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.
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Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade.
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Americans are crazy. They have this fascination with throwing their shoes on stage. I've been to a lot of shows in me life, some good and some bad. But I was never moved to take off me shoes and throw it at the lead singer.
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At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.
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Funny how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse it suddenly does.
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She had much in common with Hitler, only no mustache.
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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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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
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Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
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That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.
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I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
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I can take any amount of criticism as long as I can consider it unqualified praise.
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The higher the building the lower the morals.
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The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.
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Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.
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He's completely unspoiled by failure.
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