"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so."

"The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

"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."

"Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart."

"Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner."

"Valour needs first strength, then a weapon."

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

"Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, 'Let Tesla be', and all was light."

"Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. Its's what you do with what you have left."

"Best safety lies in fear."

"Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt."