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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

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We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

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See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

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I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

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We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often 'crash' when we tried to use them.

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It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the Web.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: March 11th, 1952

Died: May 11th, 2001

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