"He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which."

"Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose."

"It鈥檚 not the fall that kills you; it鈥檚 the sudden stop at the end."

"I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously."

"She is the least benightedly unintelligent organic lifeform it has ever been my distinct lack of pleasure not to have been able to avoid meeting."

"There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...,0); the other was the fact that the century would end."

"No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish."

"Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow."

"Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh."

"I may not agree with what you say, but I'll fight to the death for your right to die in a fire of suspicious origin"

"It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god."

"I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's."