"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

"Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."

"It鈥檚 not the fall that kills you; it鈥檚 the sudden stop at the end."

"There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling."

"There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...,0); the other was the fact that the century would end."

"Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it."

"A man I am cross'd with adversity."

"I'm never going to be famous. I don't do anything, not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more."

"The goal of all life is death."

"IMPIETY, n. Your irreverence toward my deity."

"Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue."

"The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being."