He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City.

It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%.

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.