I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good. - Douglas Adams

Every single decision we make, every breath we draw, opens some doors and closes many others. Most of them we don't notice. Some we do.

"It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in "It's a nice day," or "You're very tall," or "So this is it, we're going to die."

His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up.

After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this — "If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.