'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.'

The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

Poverty is a culture cultivated by a poor mindset which can not evolve or accept possibilities of rising higher .

We can never fall short when it comes to recruiting, hiring, maintaining and growing our workforce. It is the employees who make our organization’s success a reality.

If we don't protect what we have, it will be destroyed.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

I would like just one time to be on the cover of Italian Vogue.

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter.

I was there [in school] the full time with one teacher, and the student body was never more than 10 or 12 students of all ages.

A class, in Java, is where we teach objects how to behave.

Nothing makes sense, why should I?