Parlor Wit
Douglas Adams had a unique and humorous way of looking at life and humanity. Here are some quotations attributed to him:
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.
We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
A learning experience is one of those things that say, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.'
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.
We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
A learning experience is one of those things that say, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.'
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
posted by Alex Budarin | 7:09 PM
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