Occupation: Writer Birth: March 11, 1952 Death: May 11, 2001
I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be..
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by..
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New Y….
If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else..
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss..
The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood..
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move..
The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don't even know you are making..
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclinati….
It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getti….
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles a….
A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that..
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be..
You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass..
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be ….
2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change..
Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed a….
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot..
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools..
Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.' 'That,' said the universe, 'creates no sense of obligation in me whatsoever..
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others..