AndyBell’s Edited Quotes

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.

The soldier who has died due to the failure of his officer is a crime before God. So study hard, young Lieutenant. Prepare yourself well. Burn the midnight oil so that in your old age you will not look down at your hands to find his blood red upon them.

What we’re really doing is building an augmented version of humanity.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.

Language splits the world up into thousands of discreet units, then puts them back together again in unexpected ways.

YouTube is a place for people to share their ideas. If by people you mean 13 year old girls and by ideas you mean how they love the Jonas Brothers.

Some of the housemates are on the sofas, passing round the jaffa cakes.

Engines are the heart of an airplane, pilot is its spirit.

Don't p**s on my back to tell me it's raining.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

He's the only man I know who could start an argument with himself

As nearly as possible in the spirit of Matthew Salinger, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean.

Caught my first tube this morning...Sir

Maggie Thatcher, your boys took a hell of a beating

With a winning smile the boy with naivety succeeds

To prepare for a race there is nothing better than a good pheasant, some champagne and a woman.

The notion of ideas as this singular thing is a fundamental flaw. There are so many ideas that what you need is that group behaving creatively.