Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but t… - Douglas Adams

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

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 York, wars and so on — whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man — for precisely the same reasons.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right … Or put it another way, "The future of computer power is pure simplicity."