I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so... - Douglas Adams

"Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food."

"Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland)"

"First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure."

"Life is wasted on the living."

"I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously."