"In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea."

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

"It鈥檚 not the fall that kills you; it鈥檚 the sudden stop at the end."

"We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books."

"Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it."

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

"I am the only guinea pig I have."

"Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease."

"In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items."

"Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised."

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works."

"I have no need of your God-damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences."