I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
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For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
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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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This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
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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 replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
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The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
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It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
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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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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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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
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If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.
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I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
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Time is bunk.
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