Quotes

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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

-- Henry Brooks Adams

Humor is just another defense against the universe
-- Mel Brooks

"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."
-- Phillips Brooks

The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
-- Henry Becque

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
-- Douglas Adams

With a rubber duck, one's never alone.
-- Douglas Adams (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
-- Fred Brooks

"We need a president who's fluent in at least one language."
-- Buck Henry

"The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks."
-- Douglas Adams (Dirk Gently)

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
-- Douglas Adams

"It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'as pretty as an airport' exist."
-- Douglas Adams

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
-- Douglas Adams (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

Be one of those upon whom nothing is lost.
-- Henry James

"The Hitch Hiker's Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel as a tapestry."
-- Douglas Adams

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
-- Douglas Adams (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

`Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.'
(Arthur experiencing the improbability drive at work)
-- Douglas Adams (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)