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Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.
Nobody likes a whistler, particularly not the divinity that shapes our ends.
Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer.
The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%.
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
I am terribly proud of-I was born in Cambridge in 1952 and my initials are DNA!
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.
The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.
A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones.
Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner.
Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.
You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.
You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.
If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.
If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.
Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things
The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don't even know you are making.
Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.
I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.
We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.
I wanted to be John Cleese. It took me some time to realise that the job was taken.
I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence.
Alltami (n.) The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.
If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.
Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end.
Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.
There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.
The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it.
Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.
Don't spin your wheels and stress. Take a deep breath, center yourself and make a plan.
Time travel, by its very nature, was invented in all periods of history simultaneously.
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
I tend to get very suspicious of anything that thinks it's art while it's being created.
The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.
Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.
I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.
Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there´s a saucer of milk in it for them.
Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.
Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.
I find that writing is a constant battle with exactly the same problems you've always had.