nwill’s most loved Quotables

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

My favourite piece of information is that Branwell Bronte, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantelpiece, in order to prove it could be done.

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. The horrible are the cancer patients and the terminal cases... the miserable is everyone else. So, be thankful that you're miserable.

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

Does for rock and roll what ‘The Sound of Music’ did for hills.

Escape or die frying.

He can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

We are dealing with a manifestation of a delusion, a kind of hallucination

"Amen" was the medieval equivalent of "Send".