We live in strange times. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own. Being able to glance out into this bewildering complexity of infinite recursion and say things like, 'Oh, hi, Ed! Nice tan. How's Carol?' involves a great deal of filtering skill for which all conscious entities have eventually to develop a capacity in order to protect themselves from the contemplation of the chaos through which they seethe and tumble.

The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor.

I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

I can see we're in for a fabulous evening's apocalypse.

The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.