I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are. - John Cleese

New ideas are rather like small creatures. They’re easily strangled.

New Yorkers weren’t rude so much as tense. If I went into a tobacconist and started with my public school patter, “I’m so sorry to bother you but I’d rather care to buy some cigarettes, so if you’d be so good as to allow me to intrude upon your time …,” they’d shout “Whaddyawant?” as though you’d insulted them. But if you strode into the store, fixed them with a look of pure hatred and hissed the word “Larks!,” they’d smile and chat and tell you why they’d just left their wife.

The first was that the creative architects knew how to play.