"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
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"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
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"When you walk through the storm, hold your head high And don't be afraid of the dark! At the end of the storm is a golden sky And the sweet song of the lark. Walk on through the wind Walk on through the rain Though your dreams be tossed & blown Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart And you'll never walk alone!"
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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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"Democracy is all about not electing the wrong man-eating lizard."
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"Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you."
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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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"You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass."
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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."
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"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
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"A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that."
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"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws."
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"The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
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"I'm up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis."
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"God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining."
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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 movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy."
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"He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot."
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"I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously."
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"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."
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"Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast."
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