The greatest killer of creativity is interruption. It pulls your mind away from what you want to be thinking about. Research has shown that, after an… - John Cleese

Ето, че пред мен стоеше униформен идиот от най-висша степен - мъж, който дори в избраната от него сфера на експертност е съумял да остане тъп като галош. И не просто незнаещ (което лесно се поправя), а толкова несравнимо празноглав, че нямаше ни най-малка представа... колко шампионски, страховито скодоумен беше.

When James Thurber described humour (or humor) as “emotional chaos remembered in tranquility” he was only pointing out that things that seem very important at the time usually aren’t, and that it’s not unkind to laugh at temporary upsets, especially when they’re our own. In fact, it’s rightly considered healthy to be able to laugh at oneself, and we all much prefer people who do not take themselves “too seriously.” A good sense of humour is the sign of a healthy perspective, which is why people who are uncomfortable around humour are either pompous (inflated) or neurotic (oversensitive). Pompous people mistrust humour because at some level they know their self-importance cannot survive very long in such an atmosphere, so they criticise it as “negative” or “subversive.” Neurotics, sensing that humour is always ultimately critical, view it as therefore unkind and destructive, a reductio ad absurdum which leads to political correctness.

Finally one evening somebody suggested Python (a great name for an untrustworthy impresario, I thought), someone else added Monty, which had connotations of our greatest World War II general, there was hysteria, and history was made.