The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.

You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and the behavior becomes inappropriate that it becomes funny.

Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers - which is why almost no technology ever works.

Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their collaborators and competitors, bring up a family and have friends. That's not enough any more, and I think that is absolutely tragic - and I'm not exaggerating - that people feel like a decent, ordinary, fun life is no longer enough.

English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.

The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?