AndyBell’s Submitted Quotes

People commonly use the word “procrastination” to describe what they do on the Internet. It seems to me too mild to describe what’s happening as merely not-doing-work. We don’t call it procrastination when someone gets drunk instead of working.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

About twice a year, I drink like a teenager. I get merry and then have one drink too many and spiral out of control.

You'll never win anything with kids.

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young—or slender.

If you want to go fast, walk alone. If you want to go far, walk together.

What gets measured gets done.

The test of a work is our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

It's not the despair, Laura. I can stand the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.

A novel should give a picture of common life enlivened by humour and sweetened by pathos

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity.

People who are the most fearful seek safety in stability and hierarchy, where more emotionally secure people can tolerate some chaos and unpredictability in their lives.

Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you are being precise about

Cheaper than an M&S prawn sandwich but probably wouldn't last as long.

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

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

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

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.