People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
— Isaac Asimov · Funny
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
— Isaac Asimov · Funny
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“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.”
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'”
“If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.”
“Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.”
“Children are the most honest critics. They will say 'You're funny', but also 'You're pathetic - go away.'”
“If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.”
“Doing stand-up takes the fun out of being funny.”
“It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.”
“But, sooner or later I'd love to do a comedy. I mean I think that, you know, people don't think that that's in my wheelhouse because I've sort of played a lot of dramatic stuff and that's certainly a side of myself that I want at some point in the right context, in the right stuff, that I find really funny.”
“It's interesting with my blog, because it feels to me less like a blog and more like a forum, because my readers are so funny and leave hysterical comments. And I'm not being humble when I say that very often, the comments are so much better than the post originally was.”
“Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.”